Retrospective Cohort Study of Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Notifications, Vietnam, 2020

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Hasan, Tasnim ; Nguyen, Viet Nhung ; Nguyen, Hoa Binh ; Nguyen, Thu Anh ; Le, Hien T.T. ; Pham, Cuong D. ; Hoang, Nam ; Nguyen, Phuong T.M. ; Beardsley, Justin ; Marks, Guy B. ; Fox, Greg J.
  More +
• Description:
  We evaluated the effects of the coronavirus disease pandemic on diagnosis of and treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam. We obtained quarterly notifications for TB and multidrug-resistant/rifampin-resistant (MDR/RR) TB from 2015-2020 and evaluated changes in monthly TB case notifications. We used an interrupted time series to assess the change in notifications and treatment outcomes. Overall, TB case notifications were 8% lower in 2020 than in 2019; MDR/RR TB notifications were 1% lower. TB case notifications decreased by 364 (95% CI -1,236 to 508) notifications per quarter and MDR/RR TB by 1 (95% CI -129 to 132) notification per quarter. The proportion of successful TB treatment outcomes decreased by 0.1% per quarter (95% CI -1.1% to 0.8%) in 2020 compared with previous years. Our study suggests that Vietnam was able to maintain its TB response in 2020, despite the pandemic.
• Subjects:
  • Antitubercular Agents
  • Covid-19
  • Humans
  • Pandemics
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Sars-Cov-2
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(3):684-692
• Pubmed ID:
  35202526
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8888245
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Vietnam
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/115219/cdc_115219_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.95 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6c1b88532eb62bd8ad29573a482aa2150dd167eca910c901333b599a98d7fc8f