ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Disseminated tuberculosis and diagnosis delay during the COVID-19 era in a Western European country: a case series analysis.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT03691883 (Design of an Integrative Algorithm for Staging Tuberculosis to Improve Clinical Management.), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Design of an Integrative Algorithm for Staging Tuberculosis to Improve Clinical Management.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Disseminated tuberculosis in a migrant child.BMJ case reports · 2024Article
- Tuberculosis disease burden in China: a spatio-temporal clustering and prediction study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Successful Management, in a Low-Resource Setting, of Disseminated Tuberculosis in a 3-Year Old Boy: A Case Report.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Understanding the bacillary load and host interaction to design a point-of-care test to diagnose tuberculosis.Frontiers in tuberculosis · 2023Article
- Tuberculosis parenteral therapeutic regimens for critical patients or non-functional intestinal tract: Brief review and proposal of protocol.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious DiseasesReview
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Abstract
Background: Disseminated tuberculosis is frequently associated with delayed diagnosis and a poorer prognosis. Objectives: To describe case series of disseminated TB and diagnosis delay in a low TB burden country during the COVID-19 period. Methodology: We consecutively included all patients with of disseminated TB reported from 2019 to 2021 in the reference hospital of the Northern Crown of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. We collected socio-demographic information, clinical, laboratory and radiological findings. Results: We included all 30 patients reported during the study period-5, 9, and 16 in 2019, 2020, and 2021 respectively-20 (66.7%) of whom were male and whose mean age was 41 years. Twenty-five (83.3%) were of non-EU origin. The most frequent system involvement was central nervous system ( Conclusion: There was a substantial delay in the diagnosis of disseminated TB in our study region, which might impacted the prognosis with women affected more negatively. Our results suggest that an increase in the occurrence of disseminated TB set in motion by diagnosis delay may have been a secondary effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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