|   | 
        Summary statistics | 
        Culture negatives  | 
        Culture positives  | 
        p-value | 
       
      
        | n | 
          | 
                  115 | 
        89 | 
          | 
       
      
        | Age (years) | 
        Median (10th-90th percentile) | 
        35(20-60) | 
        30(19-55) | 
        0.11 | 
       
      
        | OD values | 
        5th    percentile | 
        0.14 | 
        0.18 | 
          | 
       
      
        |   | 
        10th percentile | 
        0.15 | 
        0.21 | 
          | 
       
      
        |   | 
        25th percentile | 
        0.17 | 
        0.24 | 
          | 
       
      
        |   | 
        Median | 
        0.23 | 
        0.35 | 
         <0.001 | 
       
      
        |   | 
        75th percentile | 
        0.35 | 
        0.88 | 
          | 
       
      
        |   | 
        90th percentile | 
        0.71 | 
        2.34 | 
          | 
       
      
        |   | 
        95th percentile | 
        0.91 | 
        3.27 | 
          | 
       
     
      • both culture and smear negatives 
    n= sample size for ELISA |