Demographic and clinical characteristics of the non-active TB individuals.

(a)The hospitalized non-active TB control group presented a pulmonary disease in 58.9% of the 73 enrolled individuals with a definitive diagnosis excluding active TB: bacterial or atypical pneumonia (34.9%); Bronchitis (11.6%), MOTT infection (11.6%), lung cancer (7.0%), COPD (7.0%), complicated Asthma (7.0%), Lung abscess (4.7%), post-TB Lung fibrosis (2. 3%), Mediastinal lymphadenopathy (2.3%) and Sarcoïdosis (2.3%);