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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Infect Control. 2017 Feb 16;45(5):483–486. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.12.017

Table 1.

Exposures in chronological order

Exposure No Admitting Hospital Diagnosis Days from Admit to Isolation Days from Admit to TB Diagnosis AFB Status Roommates Exposed Staff Exposed
2010

1 Pneumonia 4 10 + 0 39
2 HIV/Pneumonia 1 1 + 0 5
3 Pulmonary emboli 2 0 N/A 101*
4 Chest pain 4 3 + 0 13
5 Cancer work-up N/A 5 3 24

2011

6 Lung nodule 0 0 + 0 38
7 TB 1 0 N/A 53*
8 Dysuria 9 8 + 0 69

2012

9 Cough 1 1 + 0 6
10 Lung cancer 0 N/A N/A 74*
11 Atypical chest pain 3 5 0 59
12 Epigastric pain N/A 0 + 0 65
13 Nausea 25 13 + 8 197
14 Altered mental status 3 5 2 75
15 Respiratory distress 0 1 + 0 9
16 Caustic ingestion 2 2 1 20

2013

17 Cavitary lung lesion 0 0 + 1 9
18 Neutropenic fever 1 4 + N/A 53
19 Headache N/A 21 N/A 9 24
20 Fever N/A 16 0 93
21 Aortic stenosis 4 10 + 1 66
22 Pneumonia 1 1 0 15
23 TB 0 N/A N/A 0 6*
24 Lung mass N/A 0 0 5
25 Fever 4 5 + 0 39
26 Ascites 17 21 3 85

2014

27 TB§ 1 0 + 0 15
28 Pneumonia 1 4 0 19
29 Altered mental status 1 2 0 17
30 Lung mass 0 1 + 0 18
31 Abdominal pain 4 N/A + 0 20
32 Aortic aneurysm 4 9 0 17
33 Lung nodule 0 3 + 0 2
34 Fever 4 6 + 0 31

N/A=data not available

*

Includes staff exposed from prior admission within same healthcare system in past 3 months

Exposure work-up from prior admission in same healthcare system

§

Was incorrectly placed on droplet isolation instead of airborne isolation