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ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2022

Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19.

Alexandra Jaye Zimmer, Joel Shyam Klinton, Charity Oga-Omenka, Petra Heitkamp, Carol Nawina Nyirenda, Jennifer Furin, Madhukar Pai

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Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. The many faces of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: A case series.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2026
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  6. A Point-of-Care Prediction Tool for Recurrent Tuberculosis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  12. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis program performance in Alberta, Canada: a population-based evaluation.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
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  15. Advanced Therapeutic Interventions TargetingArchives of Razi Institute · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alexandra Jaye ZimmerDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6047-0923
Joel Shyam KlintonMcGill International TB Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4850-3961
Charity Oga-OmenkaDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Petra HeitkampMcGill International TB Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Carol Nawina NyirendaCITAMPlus, Lusaka, Zambia.
Jennifer FurinDepartment of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Madhukar PaiDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada madhukar.pai@mcgill.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-3667-4536

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to tuberculosis (TB) care and service delivery in 2020, setting back progress in the fight against TB by several years. As newer COVID-19 variants continue to devastate many low and middle-income countries in 2021, the extent of this setback is likely to increase. Despite these challenges, the TB community can draw on the comprehensive approaches used to manage COVID-19 to help restore progress and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on TB. Our team developed the 'Swiss Cheese Model for Ending TB' to illustrate that it is only through multisectoral collaborations that address the personal, societal and health system layers of care that we will end TB. In this paper, we examine how COVID-19 has impacted the different layers of TB care presented in the model and explore how we can leverage some of the lessons and outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen the global TB response.

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COVID-19TuberculosisHumansPandemicsCOVID-19health servicespublic healthtuberculosis

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PMID34535539
PMCPMC8453591

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