Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted global health systems and affected the transmission dynamics as well as the surveillance of other infectious diseases. This study described the probable effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance and control of leptospirosis in...

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Autores principales: Warnasekara, Janith, Agampodi, Suneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2022
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Covid-19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9117097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35038829
http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2022015
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted global health systems and affected the transmission dynamics as well as the surveillance of other infectious diseases. This study described the probable effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance and control of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka. With 8,579 reported cases and more than 800 estimated deaths, the Sri Lankan public health surveillance system documented the largest outbreak of leptospirosis in Sri Lankan history in 2020. This was the worst infectious disease outbreak Sri Lanka experienced in 2020, but it was neglected, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-91170972022-05-25 Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka Warnasekara, Janith Agampodi, Suneth Epidemiol Health Covid-19 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted global health systems and affected the transmission dynamics as well as the surveillance of other infectious diseases. This study described the probable effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance and control of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka. With 8,579 reported cases and more than 800 estimated deaths, the Sri Lankan public health surveillance system documented the largest outbreak of leptospirosis in Sri Lankan history in 2020. This was the worst infectious disease outbreak Sri Lanka experienced in 2020, but it was neglected, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Korean Society of Epidemiology 2022-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9117097/ /pubmed/35038829 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2022015 Text en ©2022, Korean Society of Epidemiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
title Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
title_full Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
title_fullStr Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
title_full_unstemmed Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
title_short Neglecting the neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka
title_sort neglecting the neglected during the covid-19 pandemic: the case of leptospirosis in sri lanka
topic Covid-19
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9117097/
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