Baseline characteristics of 403 smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients registered for treatment at three Kampala City Clinics, Uganda.

<p>IQR = interquartile range.</p><p>TB = tuberculosis.</p><p>WAB = working, ambulatory, bedridden.</p

History details of 18 defaulters from tuberculosis treatment by the time of the first interview after defaulting, Kampala, 2007–2008.

<p>TB = tuberculosis.</p><p>VAS = visual analogue scale.</p

Defaulting among 270 smear-positive pulmonary TB patients, Kampala 2007–2008.

<p>TB = tuberculosis.</p

Risk factors for sub-optimal serum vitamin B-12 among adult HIV-infected ART naïve participants who did not report using vitamin B-12 containing supplements at two urban HIV clinics in Uganda, in April 2010.

a<p>Adjusted for age, sex, BMI, supplement use, MCV, occupation, irritable mood, known duration with HIV, WHO disease stage and current CD4.</p>b<p>Adjusted for,age, sex, BMI, WHO stage, supplement use.</p><p><b>BMI</b>- Body Mass Index, <b>MCV</b>-Mean Corpuscular Volume, <b>OR</b> Odds Ratio, <b>WHO</b>-World health Organization.</p

Flow chart showing the patients included in the defaulting to tuberculosis treatment study, Kampala, Uganda 2007–2008.

<p>KCC = Kampala City Council, TB = Tuberculosis, PTB = Pulmonary tuberculosis.</p

Associations of defaulting with baseline characteristics of 270 patients included in the defaulters to TB treatment study, Kampala 2007–2008.

*<p> = p-value for variables included in the final model.</p><p>CI = confidence interval.</p><p>TB = tuberculosis.</p><p>UgShs = Ugandan Shillings.</p

Risk factors for sub-optimal B-12 among adult HIV- infected ART naïve participants eligible for ART (CD4<350 cells/µl) at two urban HIV clinics in Uganda, in April 2010.

a<p>Adjusted for age, sex, BMI, supplement use, MCV, occupation, irritable mood, known duration with HIV, WHO disease stage and current CD4.</p>b<p>Adjusted for,age, sex, BMI, WHO stage, supplement use.</p><p><b>BMI</b>- Body Mass Index, <b>MCV</b>-Mean Corpuscular Volume, <b>OR</b> Odds Ratio, <b>WHO</b>-World health Organization.</p

Risk factors for sub-optimal vitamin B-12 among adult HIV-infected ART naïve individuals at two urban HIV clinics in Uganda, in April 2010.

a<p>Adjusted for age, sex, BMI, supplement use, MCV, occupation, irritable mood, known duration with HIV, WHO disease stage and current CD4.</p>b<p>Adjusted for,age, sex, BMI, WHO stage, supplement use.</p><p><b>BMI</b>- Body Mass Index, <b>MCV</b>-Mean Corpuscular Volume, <b>OR</b> Odds Ratio, <b>WHO</b>-World health Organization.</p

A comparison of characteristics by serum vitamin B-12 group among adult HIV-infected ART naïve participants at two urban HIV clinics in Uganda, in April 2010.

<p><b>IQR-</b> Inter Quartile Range, <b>BMI</b>- Body Mass Index, <b>WHO</b>-World health Organization, <b>MCV</b>-Mean Corpuscular Volume, <b>Hb</b>- Hemoglobin. <b>IDI</b>- Infectious Disease Institute, <b>MJAP</b>- Mulago-Mbarara Teaching Hospitals’ Joint AIDS Program T-tests were used to compare means and the chi-square for proportions, except where mentioned.</p>a<p>Some missing data. N = 113 for Normal B-12 & 70 for Sub-Optimal B-12.</p

Additional file 1: of Evaluation of trypan blue stain in a haemocytometer for rapid detection of cerebrospinal fluid sterility in HIV patients with cryptococcal meningitis

Study raw data. File contains a full set of raw data for the tests performed and baseline clinical and demographics characteristics. (XLSX 570 kb