TABLE 3.

Examples of clusters “imported” to Hamburg

	Age years	Sex	Organ	Country of birth	Date of diagnosis	Latency to diagnosis of TB disease after immigration
A	48	Male	TB of cervical lymph nodes	Turkey	February 7, 1998	26 weeks
	66	Male	Sputum smear-positive culture- confirmed TB	Turkey	Feburary 26, 1998	20 weeks
B	23	Male	Sputum smear-negative culture- confirmed TB	Turkey	September 14, 1998	2 days
	39	Female	Sputum smear-negative culture- confirmed TB	Turkey	February 4, 1999	4 weeks
C	4	Male	Sputum smear-negative culture- confirmed TB	Afghanistan	May 7, 1997	1 day
	18	Female	Urogenital TB	Afghanistan	June 7, 1999	2 weeks
D	40	Male	Sputum smear-negative culture- confirmed TB	Afghanistan	January 27, 1998	2 weeks
	59	Female	TB of cervical lymph nodes	Afghanistan	March 9, 1999	150 weeks
E	37	Male	Sputum smear-positive culture- confirmed TB	Romania	April 23, 2007	0 weeks (diagnosis at entry)
	21	Male	Sputum smear-positive culture- confirmed TB	Romania	July 28, 2011	31 weeks

TB: tuberculosis.