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Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tuberculosis (TB) still continues to be endemic in various regions of the world, including in India and needs surveillance, clinical assessment, testing, contact tracing, confirmation of diagnosis with supervised or in-supervised treatment regimens for an effective eradication....
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Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32755848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.034 |
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author | Jain, Vijay Kumar Iyengar, Karthikeyan P. Samy, David Ananth Vaishya, Raju |
author_facet | Jain, Vijay Kumar Iyengar, Karthikeyan P. Samy, David Ananth Vaishya, Raju |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tuberculosis (TB) still continues to be endemic in various regions of the world, including in India and needs surveillance, clinical assessment, testing, contact tracing, confirmation of diagnosis with supervised or in-supervised treatment regimens for an effective eradication. We assess the challenges due to COVID- 19 pandemic on management of Tuberculosis and current strategies adopted to mitigate them. METHODS: We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as ‘COVID-19’, ‘Pandemics’, ‘Tuberculosis’ and ‘India’ on the search engines of PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of COVID-19 on management of Tuberculosis. RESULTS: We found considerable disruption in Tuberculosis service provisions both in the primary care and hospital settings. Lockdown, social distancing, isolation strategies and public health guidelines to prevent viral transmission impacted the delivery of all aspects of Tuberculosis care. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact in the delivery of various tuberculosis prevention, surveillance, and treatment programmes. Lockdown and public health guidelines have resulted in tough challenges in traditional management of tuberculosis and has required reconfiguration of methods to support patients including wider use of remote consultations. |
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spelling | pubmed-73872872020-07-29 Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India Jain, Vijay Kumar Iyengar, Karthikeyan P. Samy, David Ananth Vaishya, Raju Diabetes Metab Syndr Article BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tuberculosis (TB) still continues to be endemic in various regions of the world, including in India and needs surveillance, clinical assessment, testing, contact tracing, confirmation of diagnosis with supervised or in-supervised treatment regimens for an effective eradication. We assess the challenges due to COVID- 19 pandemic on management of Tuberculosis and current strategies adopted to mitigate them. METHODS: We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as ‘COVID-19’, ‘Pandemics’, ‘Tuberculosis’ and ‘India’ on the search engines of PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of COVID-19 on management of Tuberculosis. RESULTS: We found considerable disruption in Tuberculosis service provisions both in the primary care and hospital settings. Lockdown, social distancing, isolation strategies and public health guidelines to prevent viral transmission impacted the delivery of all aspects of Tuberculosis care. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact in the delivery of various tuberculosis prevention, surveillance, and treatment programmes. Lockdown and public health guidelines have resulted in tough challenges in traditional management of tuberculosis and has required reconfiguration of methods to support patients including wider use of remote consultations. Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020 2020-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7387287/ /pubmed/32755848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.034 Text en © 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Jain, Vijay Kumar Iyengar, Karthikeyan P. Samy, David Ananth Vaishya, Raju Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India |
title | Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India |
title_full | Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India |
title_fullStr | Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India |
title_short | Tuberculosis in the era of COVID-19 in India |
title_sort | tuberculosis in the era of covid-19 in india |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32755848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.034 |
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