Table 1 Clinical and demographic characteristics of the 25 patients diagnosed with tuberculosis in this outbreak and the source case, Tel-Aviv district
From: Tuberculosis outbreak in a nursing home involving undocumented migrants and Israeli citizens
patient | Age (years) | Sex | Contact | Country | TST 1st/2nd (mm) | Diagnosis date (month, year) | Smear/culture | symptoms | Chest X ray/Chest imaging | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 31 | M | Nursing home and card club | Eritrea | −/− | 11/2012 | Pos/Pos | Productive cough, fever, weakness, loss of appetite | Small cavitation in left upper lobe and disseminated reticulonodular and thickening | Pulmonary |
2 | 24 | M | Nursing home | FSU | 14/− | 12/2012 | Neg/Pos (from pleura) | Fever, cough, weight loss | Large perihillar infiltrates with mediastinal shift, left pleural effusion and suspected infiltrations | Pleura |
3 | 26 | M | Nursing home | Eritrea | 23/− | 12/2013 | Pos/Pos | Hemoptysis, weakness, fever, chest and back pain | Right upper lobe infiltration | Pulmonary |
4 | 29 | F | Nursing home | FSU | 0/ 0 | 12/2014 | Pos/Pos | Fever, dyspnea | Bilateral infiltrations with small left lower lobe shadowing and cavitation | Pulmonary |
5 | 26 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 10/2012 | Pos/Pos | Productive cough, weight loss, fever | Non-homogeneous bilateral diffuse shadowing with Right upper lobe cavitation | Pulmonary |
6 | 72 | M | Unknown | FSU | −/− | 11/2012 | Neg/Pos | Cough, pleuritic chest pain | Left lower lobe atelectasis | Pulmonary |
7 | 23 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 10/2012 | Pos/Pos | Fever, abdominal pain, weakness, weight loss, cough | CT: Right lung multiple small nodular infiltration, (abdominal CT: ascites, omental soft tissue infiltration) | Pulmonary and abdominal |
8 | 39 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 02/2012 | Pos/Pos | Productive cough, weakness, weight loss, | Right upper lobe shadowing, small fibrotic changes at left upper lobe | Pulmonary |
9 | 29 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 04/2012 | Pos/Pos | Dyspnea, weakness, productive cough | Bilateral infiltration and right large pleural effusion | Pulmonary |
10 | 42 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 04/2012 | Pos/Pos | Fever. Productive cough, chest pain | Right upper lobe shadowing | Pulmonary |
11 | 28 | M | Married, friends | Eritrea | −/− | 05/2012 | Pos/Pos | Cough, weight loss, Weakness | Large Left upper lobe cavitation, multiple pulmonary foci, hematogenic spread | Miliary |
12 | 21 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 05/2012 | Neg/Pos | Fever, cognitive decline, stupor | Diffuse perihilar shadowing | Miliary |
13 | 20 | M | Card Club | Eritrea | −/− | 05/2012 | Neg/Pos | Productive cough, white sputum | Left lower lobe shadowing | pulmonary |
14 | 29 | M | Card Club; friends | Eritrea | 12 mm/− | 03/2013 | Pos/Pos | Weight loss, night sweats, productive cough | Right lower lobe-non homogeneous shadowing, small pleural effusion | Pulmonary |
15 | 33 | M | Unknown | Sudan | −/− | 02/2013 | Pos/Pos | shoulder pain, cough, fever, anorexia | Enhanced pulmonary pattern in left inferior lobe | Pulmonary and vertebral |
16 | 35 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 02/2013 | Neg/Pos | Systematic symptoms | Left upper lung shadowing | Pulmonary |
17 | 29 | F | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 02/2013 | Neg/Pos | Chest pain, cough, chills, dyspnea | Right lower lobe shadowing with pleural effusion | Pleura |
18 | 28 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 06/2012 | Neg/Pos | Fever, productive cough, weight loss, night sweats, anorexia, abdominal pain, emesis | Right hilar widening, lymphadenopathy | Pulmonary, lymph and thorax |
19 | 30 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 03/2015 | Pos/Pos | Fever, dyspnea, chest pain, cough | Wide consolidation, air broncho gram left lung | pulmonary |
20 | 27 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 03/2015 | Neg/Pos | Weight loss, chest pain | Normal chest x-ray | Vertebral |
21 | 30 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 03/2015 | Neg/pos | Fever, cough, dyspnea | Right pneumothorax, mediastinal shift, left perihilar shadowing | Pulmonary |
22 | 40 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 12/2015 | Pos/Pos | Cough, anorexia, weight loss | Left upper lobe shadowing and infiltration | Pulmonary, abdominal, genito-urinary and lymph |
23 | 28 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 05/2014 | Neg/Pos | Cough | Bilateral infiltration, suspected cavitation | Pulmonary |
24 | 26 | F | Card Club, married | Eritrea | −/− | 05/2012 | Neg/Pos | Weakness, loss of appetite | Left pleural effusion, right hydropneumothorax | Pulmonary and pleura |
25 | 23 | M | Card club | Eritrea | −/− | 04/2015 | Neg/Pos | Chest pain, hemoptysis, weight loss, anorexia | Right upper lobe- consolidation with cavitation | Pulmonary |
26 | 31 | M | Unknown | Eritrea | −/− | 09/2012 | Pos/Pos | Cough, weight loss, weakness | Disseminated right middle lobe, left upper lobe infiltration, right middle lobe cavitation | Pulmonary |