Table 5. Characteristics of early TB deaths that were “case transmitters” and characteristics of their secondary cases.

“Case” Transmitters								Secondary Cases
“Case”	Age	Sex	Pop. Group	Smear Status	Days Tx	Place of Dx	Co-morbidities	Type of 2°Case*	Age	Sex	Pop. Group	Disease Site	Time to Dx†	Co-morbidities
A	64	F	CBA	+	2	hosp	Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome	1	22	F	CBA	primary pulmonary	12	depression
							Septic shock Acute renal failure coagulopathy	2	2	M	CBA	primary pulmonary	5
B	86	F	CBA	+	8	hosp	Acute myocardial infarct; congestive heart failure; CVA;diabetes	1	1	M	CBA	primary pulmonary	6	Asthma; iron deficiency anemia
							Cerebro-vascular accident; anemia COPD	2	10	M	CBA	primary pulmonary	17	Beckwith-Wiedeman Syndrome; gastro-eosophageal reflux
C	88	F	FB	+	19	hosp	COPD	1	62	F	FB	pulmonary	43
D	90	M	FB	+	8	hosp	Diabetes;Chronic renal insufficiency; Malnutrition; Atrial fibrillation	1	16	M	CBO	primary pulmonary	32
E	85	M	CBA	+	1	hosp	Atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure (probable)	3	72	F	CBA	pulmonary	133	Gastric carcinoma; diabetes; coronary disease; CVA
								3	68	F	CBA	bone and joint	552	Dialysis-dependent renal failure; diabetes

Abbreviations: M male; F female; CBA Canadian-born Aboriginal; CBO Canadian-born “Other”; FB Foreign-born; Tx treatment; Dx diagnosis; Hosp hospital; COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; CVA cerebro-vascular accident

*See text for definitions of type of secondary case.

†Time to diagnosis is the number of days between the diagnosis of the “case transmitter” and the diagnosis of the secondary case.