Clinical characteristics of children less than 3 years of age evaluated for TB.

Definitions: cough for ≥ 14 days not responding to appropriate course of antibiotics; referred fever 14 days after common causes like malaria or pneumonia were excluded; weight loss/failure to thrivedefined as under 60% weight for height, failure to gain weight for more than 2 months or any loss of weight not responding to nutritional intervention1TB cases—includes confirmed and probable TB cases2Non-TB cases—includes possible, unlikely and not TB as defined in the consensus case definitions for intra-thoracic TB in children by an expert panel.[10]# Missing values implies that the observation was not recorded.Clinical characteristics of children less than 3 years of age evaluated for TB.