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

Table 4

Comparison of treatment outcome of 64 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.

Treatment outcome	TB patients infected with Beijing lineage		TB patients infected with non-Beijing lineage		value
	n	(%)§	n	(%)§
Total	12		52
Favorable
Cured	10	(83)	42	(81)	0.8375
Unfavorable	2	(17)	10	(19)
Died	0	(0)	3	(6)
Not evaluated	2	(17)	7	(13)

TB: tuberculosis. § = column percentage. value < 0.05. Note. The table gives data only of the patients whose treatment outcome information were available by September 2019 (n = 64). Reference: WHO, Definitions and Reporting Framework for Tuberculosis-2013 Revision, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2013.