High Occurrence of Emerged Lophomonas Infection among Patients Suspected of Having Pulmonary Tuberculosis: In-House PCR-Based Evidence

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis, Golestan Province, northeastern Iran.

Variables	Description	No. of examined	No. of Lophomonas-positive (%)	No. of TB- positive (%)	No. of TB/Lophomonas coinfection (%)	value
Gender	Male	99	24 (24.24)	5 (5.05)	0 (0)	0.51
	Female	117	23 (19.65)	4 (3.41)	2 (1.70)
Age group	<20	12	2 (16.66)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.57
	21–30	35	9 (25.71)	3 (8.57)	0 (0)
	31–40	27	7 (25.92)	0 (0)	2 (7.41)
	41–50	32	8 (25)	2 (6.25)	0 (0)
	>50	110	21 (19.09)	4 (3.64)	0 (0)
Clinical findings	Cough	188	38 (20.21)	9 (4.79)	2 (1.06)	0.84
	Sputum	179	39 (21.79)	8 (4.47)	1 (0.56)
	Fever	72	17 (23.61)	5 (6.94)	0 (0)
Place	Aq Qala	85	19 (22.35)	3 (3.53)	1 (1.18)	0.007
	Gonbad-e Kavus	103	4 (3.88)	6 (5.82)	1(0.97)
	Gorgan	28	24 (85.71)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Total		216	47 (21.76)	9 (4.16)	2 (0.92)