Table 2.

Characteristics of epidemiologically linked patients of the MTZ cluster

ID n°	Age (years)	Sex	Date of isolation	HIV status	Origin	Epidemiological link	Area of residencea
121	43	Man	200402	Negative	Spain	Family contact	10
130	38	Woman	200402	Negative	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	10
140	26	Woman	200404	Negative	Spain	Nursery staff b	-
449	1	Man	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	1
443	2	Woman	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	3
437	1	Man	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	1
445	1	Man	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	2
148	2	Woman	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	1
441	2	Woman	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	2
444	1	Man	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	1
442	1	Woman	200404	Unknown	Spain	Children attending the same nursery	4
180	2	Woman	200108	Unknown	Spain	Family contact	-
186	20	Woman	200109	Negative	Spain		18b
159	35	Man	200106	Negative	Spain		-
269	26	Woman	200207	Negative	Algeria	Family contact	16
257	43	Man	200206	Negative	Spain		16
272	51	Man	200208	Unknown	Spain	Family contact	18c
285	19	Man	200209	Negative	Spain		18c
160	41	Man	200106	Negative	Spain	Family contact	18d
341	5	Man	200304	Unknown	Spain		18d
201	27	Man	200111	Negative	Spain	Family contact	17
196	23	Woman	200110	Negative	Spain		17
422	24	Woman	200402	Unknown	Spain	Family contact	7
419	8 months	Woman	200402	Negative	Spain		7
36	25	Man	200205	Positive	Spain	Friendship contact	-
56	25	Man	200209	Unknown	Spain		-

^a The areas of residence are shown in figure 2. The dash (-) means that the patient did not live in any of the 18 areas of residence (see figure 2). ^b The parents of the woman who worked at the nursery lived close to area n° 5. The woman also worked for 7 years in a bingo hall in area 18d, and for one year in a bingo hall between the areas 7 and 8.

n°: patient identification number.