Era of COVID-19 Pandemic Influencing on Global Tuberculosis Epidemic
Attapon Cheepsattayakorn
Virology & Immunology Journal · 2023-11
Abstract
Between 2005 and 2019, globally, annual tuberculosis (TB, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M tuberculosis or M tb)) death (around 50 % of cases) decreased regularly and appeared 1.4 million of death in 2019, whereas TB deaths were back to 1.5 million and 1.6 million in 2020 and 2021, respectively [1].In 2020, global TB notification rate
MeSH terms
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Pandemic
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
- Tuberculosis
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Virology
- Geography