Table 3: Results of diagnostic review among patients diagnosed as Smear negative PTB in Sekoru and Deneba HCs, Sekoru woreda, Jimma zone, Ethiopia: June 2012.
|
Diagnostic criteria (N = 29) |
Number (%) |
|
3 initial smears negative |
4 (13.8%) |
|
3 initial smears negative + No clinical response to a trial of broad- spectrum antibiotics |
18 (62.1%) |
|
3 initial smears negative + No clinical response to a trial of broad- spectrum antibiotics + repeat sputum smear negative |
7 (24.1%) |
|
Total |
29 (100%) |