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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Dispatch

Tuberculosis Microepidemics among Dispersed Migrants, Birmingham, UK, 2004–2013

Melinda L. Munang1Comments to Author , Catherine Browne1, Shaina Khanom, Jason T. Evans, E. Grace Smith, Peter M. Hawkey, Heinke Kunst, Steven B. Welch, and Martin Dedicoat
Author affiliations: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK (M.L. Munang, C. Browne, S.B. Welch, M.J. Dedicoat); Public Health England Regional Centre for Mycobacteriology, Birmingham (S. Khanom, J.T. Evans, E.G. Smith, P.M. Hawkey); Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (H. Kunst)

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Table 2

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 46 Eritrea-born TB patients with 24-loci MIRU-VNTR strain typing available, Birmingham, UK, 2004–2013*

Characteristic Clustered case, n = 27 Nonclustered case, n = 19 p value†
Median age, y (IQR) 31 (26–37) 29 (26–33) 0.26‡
Male sex, no. (%) 21 (78) 10 (53) 0.11
Regular attendance at noncongregrate location
Cluster A <0.01
RV 1 12/12 1/19
Other venue
 0/12
 7/19
Cluster B 0.06
RV 1 1/3 1/19
Other venue
 2/3
 7/19
Cluster C 0.21
RV 1 0/3 1/19
Other venue
 3/3
 7/19
Cluster D >0.99
RV 1 0/4 1/19
Other venue
 2/4
 7/1
Cluster E 0.45
RV 1 0/1 1/19
Other venue
 1/1
 7/1
Cluster F >0.99
RV 1 0/4 1/19
Other venue
 2/2
 7/1
Previous BCG vaccination 1 (4) 2 (11) 0.56
History of previous TB 0 0 NA
Pulmonary TB 20 (74) 11 (58) 0.25
Sputum smear positive 6 (30) 4 (36) >0.99
Isoniazid-monoresistant isolate 3 (11) 1 (5) 0.632

*Data are no. (%) patients unless indicated otherwise. IQR, interquartile range; BCG, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin; MIRU-VNTR, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units variable-number tandem-repeat; NA, not applicable; RV, religious venue; TB, tuberculosis.
†Fisher exact test, unless indicated otherwise.
‡Mann-Whitney U test.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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