Fig 1.
“Patients with at least one sputum culture results by mycobacterium species August 2012 –November 2014” Notes: * Of the total 16, 259, the 6041 were enrolled prospectively and the 10, 218 retrospectively; ** only 10, 213 were screened for TB symptoms due to amendment on main study (XPRES) data collection procedure; *** of the 3068 screened positive for TB symptom, 2296 were among prospective and 772 from retrospective cohort.
Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with positive-culture for NTM and MTBC in a multilevel logistic regression model.
Table 2.
NTM isolated among PLHIV presenting with TB symptoms in Botswana and corresponding Xpert MTB/RIF result.
Fig 2.
“Distribution of NTM among symptomatic PLHIV by district and clinical sites".
Key to Fig 2: Athlon Hospital = ATH, Area W Clinic = AWC, Bontleng Clinic = BON, Borakalalo Clinic = BOR, Boseja Clinic = BOS, Botswelelo Clinic = BOT, Broadhurst Traditional Clinic = BTC, Bobonong Primary Hospital = BOB, Deborah Retief Memorial Hospital = DRM, Ext 3 Clinic = EXT, Gantsi Hospital = GAN, Kadimo Clinic = KAD, Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital = LMH, Lotsane Clinic = LOT, Maun Clinic = MAU, Molepolole Council Clinic = MCC, Kgosing Clinic = KGO, Nkoyaphiri Clinic = NKO, Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital = NRH, Phuthdikobo Clinic = PHU, SDA Hospital = SDA and Serowe Clinic = SER.