Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the timely diagnosis of tick-borne infections

We describe 3 adult patients who did not have COVID-19 but instead had a treatable tick-borne infection. In each case, however, the duration of time until diagnosis was delayed due to issues that have arisen because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues need to be addressed to preserve patient well...

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Autores principales: Wormser, Gary P., Jacobson, Eliana, Shanker, Elayna M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33070027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115226
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description We describe 3 adult patients who did not have COVID-19 but instead had a treatable tick-borne infection. In each case, however, the duration of time until diagnosis was delayed due to issues that have arisen because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues need to be addressed to preserve patient well-being.
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spelling pubmed-75189532020-09-28 Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the timely diagnosis of tick-borne infections Wormser, Gary P. Jacobson, Eliana Shanker, Elayna M. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis Commentary We describe 3 adult patients who did not have COVID-19 but instead had a treatable tick-borne infection. In each case, however, the duration of time until diagnosis was delayed due to issues that have arisen because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues need to be addressed to preserve patient well-being. Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7518953/ /pubmed/33070027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115226 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. 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.
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