Female Genital Tuberculosis: Clinical Presentation, Current Diagnosis, and Treatment

Table 1

Characteristics of quoted studies.

Study design	Population	Num. of participants	FGTB prevalence	Infertility due to FGTB		Ref.	Authors
				Primary	Secondary
Observational analytical study	Infertile woman	150	20%	83.33%	16.67%	[5]	(Shahzad, 2012)
Cross-sectional survey	Fertile and infertile woman	2778	0.9%	N/A	N/A	[6]	(Ali and Abdallah, 2012)
Community-based cross-sectional survey	Fertile and infertile woman	460	0.045%	N/A	N/A	[7]	(Parvez et al., 2017)
A descriptive, cross-sectional study	Infertile woman	193	6.7%	84.6%	15.4%	[8]	(Zahoor et al., 2019)
Prospective study	Infertile woman	200	5.5%	N/A	N/A	[9]	(D. Sharma et al., 2019)
Prospective study	Infertile woman	150	7.2%	N/A	N/A	[10]	(Jindal, 2006)
Prospective study	General gynecological problems	47	2.8%	N/A	N/A	[10]	(Jindal, 2006)
Meta-analysis	Infertile women	4361	24.2%	N/A	N/A	[11]	(Chaman-Ara et al., 2016)
Meta-analysis	General population of Iran	11756	6.3%	N/A	N/A	[12]	(Akbarizade et al., 2018)
A cross-sectional survey	Women presenting with various gynecologic symptoms	2778	1.6%	N/A	N/A	[6]	(Ali and Abdallah, 2012)
Prospective study	Tuberculosis patients	1672	1.25%	N/A	N/A	[13]	(Patel and Dhand, 2016)