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ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2024

Impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis notifications.

Talita Antunes Antoniolli Pontes, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Astrid Wiens

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Article in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Talita Antunes Antoniolli PontesUniversidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Assistência Farmacêutica, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8663-8042
Fernando Fernandez-LlimosUniversidade do Porto, Faculdade de Farmácia, Laboratório de Farmacologia, Porto, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8529-9595
Astrid WiensUniversidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Farmácia, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4460-4044

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the control of diseases by overwhelming healthcare systems, and tuberculosis (TB) notifications may have been affected. This study aimed to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on TB notifications in the Sao Paulo State. This is a retrospective study examining TB notifications extracted from the TBweb database (Jan 2015 to Dec 2022). We conducted an interrupted time series (ITS) analysis of TB notifications using the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic as the interrupting event (Bayesian causal impact analysis). A total of 177,103 notifications of TB incident cases were analyzed, revealing a significant decrease in 2020 (13%) and in 2021 (9%), which lost significance in 2022. However, changes were not associated with population density or the area of the regions. Future analyses of the effects of TB underdiagnosis might help describe the impact of underreporting on future TB incidence and mortality.

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COVID-19TuberculosisBrazilDisease NotificationHumansIncidenceInterrupted Time Series AnalysisPandemicsRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2

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PMCPMC11164045

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