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

Table 3

Clinical presentation among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care hospital in Kandy, Sri Lanka (February 2018–July 2019).

	TB patients infected with Beijing lineage		TB patients infected with non-Beijing lineage		Total
	n	(%) §	n	(%)§
Total	24		70
Sputum grade
Low grade (scanty/1+)	8	(33)	40	(57)	48
High grade (2+/3+)	16	(67)	30	(43)	46
Symptoms
Cough	23	(25)	69	(75)	92
Fever	14	(58)	33	(47)	47
Headache	0	(0)	11	(17)	11
Haemoptysis	4	(17)	16	(23)	20
Loss of weight	13	(54)	38	(54)	51
Body pain	2	(11)	3	(6)	5
Type of TB patient
New	24	(100)	67	(96)	91
Relapse	0	(0)	3	(4)	3
Presence of comorbidities
Diabetes mellitus	7	(29)	16	(23)	23
Asthma	0	(0)	4	(6)	4

TB: tuberculosis. value < 0.05. § = column percentages. Type of TB patient: new: never been treated for TB or have taken anti-TB drugs for less than 1 month; relapse: previously treated for TB were declared cured or treatment completed at the end of their most recent course of treatment and are now diagnosed with a recurrent episode of TB (either a true relapse or a new episode of TB caused by reinfection) (Reference: WHO, Definitions and Reporting Framework for Tuberculosis-2013 Revision, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2013.).