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ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2020

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Co-infection: An Updated Review.

Ajay Mishra, Anu Anna George, Kamal Kant Sahu, Amos Lal, George Abraham

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Review in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ajay Mishra. ajay.mishra@stvincenthospital.com.
Anu Anna GeorgeResident in Internal Medicine. anugeorg@gmail.com.
Kamal Kant SahuResident in Internal Medicine. Kamalkant.Sahu@stvincenthospital.com.
Amos LalFellow, Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN . Lal.Amos@mayo.edu.
George AbrahamChief of Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School President-Elect and Regent, American College of Physicians (ACP) Chair, Infectious Disease Board, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Chair, Board of Registration in Medicine (BORIM), Commonwealth of Massachusetts. George.Abraham@stvincenthospital.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID 19) has involved millions of people all over the world. Tuberculosis (TB) continues to affect millions of people every year with high mortality. There is limited literature on the occurrence of COVID 19 in patients with TB. We reviewed the available data on various clinical details, management, and outcome among patients with COVID-19 and TB. 8 studies reported a total of 80 patients with this coinfection. These patients were reported from ten different countries, with Italy reporting the largest number of cases. Migrant, males constituted a major proportion of cases. Most reported patients were symptomatic. Fever, dry cough, and dyspnea were the most commonly reported symptoms. Bilateral ground glass opacities were more common in COVID 19 infection and cavitary lesions were more common in patients with TB. Most reported TB patients had been found to have mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum culture in the background of pulmonary TB. Most patients of TB were treated with multidrug regimen antitubercular therapy. In all 8 studies, COVID 19 was treated as per the local protocol. Mortality was reported in more than 10% of patients. Mortality was higher in elderly patients (> 70 years) and amongst patient with multiple medical comorbidities.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentSARS-CoV-2AdultAgedCoinfectionCOVID-19FemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID33682808
PMCPMC7975929

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