Table 1.
Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) among sputum smear negative HIV infected TB suspects (n = 170).
Table 2.
Distribution of sputum sample culture results for the six patterns of results according to methods used.
Table 3.
Yield of first and Incremental yield of the second and third serial sputum culture.
Table 4.
Comparison of Number of sputum samples required to detect one additional TB case on 2nd and 3rd sputum culture versus TB expert critical values.