Characteristics of participants.

Abstract

<p>All patients had clinical signs and symptoms of active pulmonary TB; comprising, 79.3% cough, 72.4% fever, 67.2% weight loss, 55.2% night sweats, and 46.6% hemoptysis. Healthy controls involved in the study, were free of active TB infection, latent TB infection and any clinical symptoms of any infectious disease. Both TB patients and healthy controls were non-smokers.</p