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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Differentiation of Tuberculosis Strains in a Population with Mainly Beijing-family Strains

Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy*, Krishna Gopaul*, Yanina Balabanova*†, Timothy Brown*, Ivan Fedorin†, and Francis Drobniewski*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom; †Samara Regional Tuberculosis Service, Samara, Russia

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Table 1

Baseline clinical and sociodemographic parameters of 187 tuberculosis (TB) patients

Parameters Isolates from civilian patients
(N = 138), n (%) Isolates from prisoners
(N = 49), n (%)
Mean age, y (SD) 42.4 (14.3) 32.5 (10.6)
Sex
Male 117 (84.8) 49 (100.0)
Female 21(15.2) 0
TB treatment
New cases 105 (76.1) 36 (73.5)
Previously treated 33 (23.9) 13 (26.5)
HIV infected 4 (2.9) 5 (10.2)
Extensive lesions shown on radiograph 35 (25.4) 12 (24.5)
Contact with TB patient 54 (39.1) 25 (51.0)
Selected sociologic parameters
Smoker 103 (74.6) 46 (93.9)
Alcohol consumption 121 (87.7) 39 (79.6)
Drug use 9 (6.5) 20 (40.8)

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