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Table 3 Signs and symptoms of children with presumptive tuberculosis by gender, recorded by private health care providers in 12 selected districts in Pakistan, 2016

From: How do private practitioners in Pakistan manage children suspected having tuberculosis? A cross sectional study

History and investigations

Total

Female

Male

p-value

n(%)

n(%)

n(%)

Total

All presumptive cases

6519

2320

4199

 

Chest

Cough more than two weeks

6006 (92.1)

2102 (90.6)

3904 (93.0)

0.001

Failure to thrive

4210 (64.8)

1644 (70.9)

2566 (61.1)

< 0.0001

Systemic

Fever

5794 (89.0)

2039 (87.9)

3755 (89.4)

0.075

Loss of body weight

504 (7.7)

196 (8.4)

308 (7.3)

0.110

Enlarged cervical lymph nodes

785 (12.1)

322 (13.8)

463 (11.0)

0.001

BCG scar absent

1843 (28.2)

742 (32.0)

1101 (26.2)

< 0.0001

Meningitis

Signs of slow onset meningitisa

658 (10.1)

228 (9.8)

430 (10.2)

0.607

Contacts

Known pulmonary tuberculosis patient

778 (11.9)

258 (11.1)

520 (12.4)

0.121

  1. aSymptoms regarded as slow meningitis include headache, vomiting, irritability, lethargy, neck stiffness, bulging fontanella, coma