Effect of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis Notification, South Korea
Nakwon Kwak, Seung-Sik Hwang, Jae‐Joon Yim
Emerging infectious diseases · 2020-07
Abstract
After South Korea raised its infectious disease alert to the highest level in response to coronavirus disease emergence, tuberculosis notification during the first 18 weeks of 2020 decreased significantly from the same period for each year during 2015-2019. Adequate measures to diagnose, control, and prevent tuberculosis need to be maintained.
MeSH terms
- Tuberculosis
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Medicine
- Infectious disease (medical specialty)
- Virology
- Disease
- Contact tracing
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Coronavirus
- Notification system
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
- Tuberculosis control