Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) responses such as social distancing practices can decrease health care access and tuberculosis (TB) notification, particularly among individuals aged 60 years or older. Conversely, they can increase TB notification among younger individuals. These results may be attrib...

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Autores principales: Kim, Honghyok, Kang, Young Ae, Kim, Hee-Jin, Choi, Hongjo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35277170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-022-01966-2
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description Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) responses such as social distancing practices can decrease health care access and tuberculosis (TB) notification, particularly among individuals aged 60 years or older. Conversely, they can increase TB notification among younger individuals. These results may be attributable to household transmission and the similarity of TB respiratory symptoms to COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-89138582022-03-11 Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data Kim, Honghyok Kang, Young Ae Kim, Hee-Jin Choi, Hongjo Respir Res Letter to the Editor Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) responses such as social distancing practices can decrease health care access and tuberculosis (TB) notification, particularly among individuals aged 60 years or older. Conversely, they can increase TB notification among younger individuals. These results may be attributable to household transmission and the similarity of TB respiratory symptoms to COVID-19. BioMed Central 2022-03-11 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8913858/ /pubmed/35277170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-022-01966-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Kim, Honghyok
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Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data
title Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data
title_full Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data
title_fullStr Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data
title_full_unstemmed Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data
title_short Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 control measures on tuberculosis in South Korea: an analysis of case notification data
title_sort heterogeneous effects of covid-19 control measures on tuberculosis in south korea: an analysis of case notification data
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8913858/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-022-01966-2
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