The Predicted Potential Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Epidemic in Tamil Nadu, South India.

Malaisamy MuniyandiKarikalan NagarajanKavi MathiyazhaganPrathiksha Giridharan Kannan Thiruvengadam Rajendran Krishnan

Published in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease (2024)

The results of our study shows that there was an annual decline of around 2% from 2020 to 2025 in the trend of the prevalence and incidence of TB with and without COVID-19. Overall, there is a reduction, but it was not significant, and there is no significant effect of COVID-19 on TB in Tamil Nadu.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
mycobacterium tuberculosis
sars cov
risk factors
pulmonary tuberculosis
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
human health
hepatitis c virus
hiv infected
antiretroviral therapy