IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 4370: Tuberculosis Co-Infection Is Common in Patients Requiring Hospitalization for COVID-19 in Belarus: Mixed-Methods Study
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 4370: Tuberculosis Co-Infection Is Common in Patients Requiring Hospitalization for COVID-19 in Belarus: Mixed-Methods Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074370
Authors:
Yuliia Sereda
Oleksandr Korotych
Dzmitry Klimuk
Dzmitry Zhurkin
Varvara Solodovnikova
Malgorzata Grzemska
Viatcheslav Grankov
Hennadz Hurevich
Askar Yedilbayev
Alena Skrahina
A significant drop in tuberculosis (TB) case-finding has been widely reported during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address a decrease in TB notification, Belarus introduced laboratory TB testing in patients with the laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We conducted a secondary analysis of health records among 844 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis who were admitted to repurposed departments at TB hospitals and who were tested by Xpert MTB/RIF (Cepheid Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) in five Belarus regions between April and October 2021. Quantitative analysis followed by 13 individual interviews with health managers, physicians, and nurses participating in the intervention. Most patients were male (64%) and mean age was 43.5 ± 16 years. One in twenty (n = 47, 5.6%) patients were co-infected with active pulmonary TB, and over one-third of them (n = 18) had rifampicin resistance. In-hospital mortality was comparable in patients with and without TB co-infection (2.1% and 2.3% r...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yuliia Sereda Oleksandr Korotych Dzmitry Klimuk Dzmitry Zhurkin Varvara Solodovnikova Malgorzata Grzemska Viatcheslav Grankov Hennadz Hurevich Askar Yedilbayev Alena Skrahina Tags: Article Source Type: research
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