Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Table 3 Multivariate factors associated with MDR-TB and RR-TB

From: Drug resistant tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia: an analysis of surveillance data 2014–2015

		MDR-TB				RR-TB
				95% CI for aOR				95% CI for aOR
Factor		P	aOR	Lower	Upper	P	aOR	Lower	Upper
Age		0.032^a	0.98	0.962	0.998	0.047^a	0.98	0.970	1.000
Female	Male	0.015^a	2.21	1.170	4.181	0.044^a	1.78	1.015	3.120
Occupation: Driver	Other	0.232	1.68	0.718	3.932	0.285	1.51	0.708	3.237
Occupation: Housemaid	Other	0.116	0.49	0.200	1.193	0.147	0.55	0.246	1.234
Occupation: Housewife	Other	0.036^a	0.33	0.114	0.932	0.010^a	0.28	0.109	0.744
Occupation: Hand Craft	Other	0.390	1.93	0.430	8.654	0.241	2.11	0.606	7.342
Occupation: Student	Other	0.113	0.44	0.157	1.217	0.037^a	0.37	0.144	0.940
Occupation:Unemployed	Other	0.395	0.72	0.338	1.534	0.267	0.70	0.370	1.317
Occupation: Prisoner	Other	0.771	0.86	0.313	2.369	0.584	0.79	0.330	1.868
Saudi	Non-Saudi	0.921	0.97	0.569	1.664	0.583	1.14	0.716	1.813
West	Center	0.624	0.88	0.522	1.477	0.371	0.81	0.514	1.282
East	Center	0.038^a	0.35	0.131	0.942	0.005^a	0.28	0.115	0.685
South	Center	0.181	0.57	0.254	1.296	0.552	0.82	0.437	1.556
North	Center	0.710	0.81	0.274	2.418	0.273	0.55	0.189	1.601
TB Type: Pulmonary	EPTB	0.480	1.38	0.565	3.375	0.766	1.11	0.548	2.260
Diabetes	No	0.835	0.92	0.411	2.052	0.874	0.95	0.486	1.847
HIV	No	0.469	2.34	0.234	23.392	0.416	2.14	0.343	13.353
Lung diseases	No	0.549	0.63	0.138	2.868	0.789	0.85	0.271	2.693
Chronic renal failure	No	0.102	4.01	0.759	21.231	0.004^a	6.61	1.860	23.495
Immunosuppressive	No	0.738	1.56	0.116	21.008	0.262	3.18	0.420	24.113
Previous TB treatment	No	0.001^a	12.08	7.325	19.927	0.001^a	9.33	5.920	14.717
(Intercept)		0.003	0.02			0.002	0.04

^aSignificant at α = 0.05; aOR adjusted odds ratio, TB Tuberculosis, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, MDR-TB multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, RR-TB rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis, EPTB extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. The percentages of correct classification were 95.6% for MDR-TB and 94.1% for RR-TB

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