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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis national reference laboratory services in the WHO European Region, March to November 2020
- Source :
- Eurosurveillance, Repisalud, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 2021.
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Abstract
- We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on diagnostic services for tuberculosis (TB) by national reference laboratories in the WHO European Region. Of 35 laboratories, 30 reported declines in TB sample numbers, amounting up to > 50% of the pre-COVID-19 volumes. Sixteen reported reagent or consumable shortages. Nineteen reallocated ressources to SARS-CoV-2 testing, resulting in an overall increase in workload, largely without a concomitant increase in personnel (n = 14). This poses a risk to meeting the 2025 milestones of the End TB Strategy. Financial support for this work has been provided by the German Government. Sí
- Subjects :
- Tuberculosis
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Epidemiology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Reference laboratory
World Health Organization
1117 Public Health and Health Services
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
COVID-19 Testing
Tuberculosis diagnosis
Virology
Environmental health
Pandemic
diagnostics
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Diagnostics
Pandemics
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Workload
European region
medicine.disease
PCR
030228 respiratory system
business
Laboratories
European Laboratory Initiative on TB, HIV and Viral Hepatitis
Rapid Communication
Additional members of the European Laboratory Initiative on TB, HIV and Viral Hepatitis core group (in alphabetical order)
0605 Microbiology
1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15607917 and 1025496X
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Eurosurveillance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9938ffe856e9a947dfbf5954dcd2e9bd