Demographics and Symptoms of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Culture and smear results were based off of the first three sputum samples. Symptoms were self-reported at the time of initial presentation. Ten of the 99 subjects had missing data on symptoms, 1 was Cx- and 9 were Cx+. Abbreviations: Cx-, culture-negative; Cx+, culture-positive; Sm-, smear-negative; Sm+, smear-positive. a Determined for 3-group comparison: Cx- vs. Sm-Cx+ vs. Sm+Cx+. b Determined for 2-group comparison: Cx- vs. All Cx+. c Race information was available for 95/99 subjects. d Among foreign-born only. Years in US information was available for 63/99 subjects. * P < 0.05 for a priori comparison of group to Cx-. ** P < 0.01 for a priori comparison of group to Cx-. Demographics and Symptoms of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.