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Table 1 Patient demographic characteristics and associated drug susceptibility pattern

From: A first insight into the genotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Rwanda

Demographic characteristics

Total

Sensitivea

Resistant

 

INHb

RIFc

MDRd

Number of strains

151

67 (44.4%)

1 (0.7%)

2 (1.3%)

64 (42.4%)

Sex

Male

95

47 (49.5%)

1 (1.1%)

1 (1.1%)

34 (35.8%)

 

Female

56

20 (35.7%)

0

1 (1.8%)

30 (53.6%)

Treatment history

New cases

46

28 (60.9%)

0

0

12 (26.1%)

 

Retreatment

94

39 (41.5%)

1 (1.1%)

2 (2.2%)

48 (51.1%)

 

Unknown

11

2 (18.2%)

0

0

0

HIV status

Positive

69

34 (49.3%)

0

2 (2.9%)

30 (43.5%)

 

Negative

76

35 (46.1%)

1 (1.3%)

0

32 (42.1%)

 

unknown

6

0

0

0

0

  1. aSensitive indicates isolates susceptible to both isoniazid and rifampicin; bResistance to isonaizid only, cresistance to rifampicin only, dresistance to both isonaizid and rifampicin. Seventeen isolates did not have complete susceptibility testing results and were excluded from the table.