The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tuberculosis epidemic a modelling analysis

Background: Routine services for tuberculosis (TB) are being disrupted by stringent lockdowns against the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. We sought to estimate the potential long-term epidemiological impact of such disruptions on TB burden in high-burden countries, and how this negative impact could be miti...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lucia Cilloni, Han Fu, Juan F Vesga, David Dowdy, Carel Pretorius, Sevim Ahmedov, Sreenivas A. Nair, Andrei Mosneaga, Enos Masini, Suvanand Sahu, Nimalan Arinaminpathy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:EClinicalMedicine
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537020303473