Is International Travel an Emerging Issue on Transmission of Beijing Lineage Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

Table 2

Out-of-country travel information of TB patients diagnosed in a tertiary care hospital in Kandy, Sri Lanka, between February 2018 and March 2019 disaggregated by their Beijing lineage strain status.

Out-of-country travel history	TB patients infected with Beijing lineage (n)	TB patients infected with non-Beijing lineage (n)	value
Travelled	7	6	0.0117
Travelled to one country only	6	4
Travelled to two countries	1	2
Country travelled
Dubai	0	1
Germany	0	1
Jordan	0	1
Kuwait	3	0
Malaysia	1	1
Saudi Arabia	2	2
Singapore	1	0
India	1	0
Japan	0	1
Maldives	0	1
Duration of visit abroad
Less than one year	2	1
1–5 years	3	2
6–10 years	0	0
10–15 years	1	1
16–20 years	1	0
21–25 years	0	1
Not recorded	0	1
Purpose of travel
Labour migrant	5	4
Pilgrimage	2	1
Tourism	1	0
Other	0	1

value < 0.05.