Extract
We read with interest the two articles by Tadolini et al. [1] and Stochino et al. [2] which described recent cohorts of either current or former TB patients with COVID-19 and studied their clinical course. India has the majority of global burden of tuberculosis (TB) along with highest rising number of daily COVID-19 cases in the world [3, 4]. Though the information about COVID-19 and active/former TB co-infection reported so far is sparse but it can be assumed that person with TB, when co-infected with COVID-19 may be at more risk of poor outcomes [1, 5]. The present study describes the first-ever cohort of current or treated TB patients co-infected with COVID-19 from a high TB burden country, recruited by a tertiary care hospital in India.
Abstract
Both tuberculosis and COVID-19 being communicable and prevalent diseases in India, the co-existence can lead to worse outcomes, as seen in our study where there was high mortality among active as well as treated TB patients with COVID-19 co-infection.
Footnotes
Contributions: All the 14 authors made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; or drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and towards final approval of the version to be published; and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved
Place of Study: Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi- 110029, India
Declaration of patient consent - the authors certify that they have obtained written informed consent from the patients to publish their personal details and follow up. The patients understand that their name and initials will not be published but, anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
Ethics committee approval was not required as it was a retrospective observational study
Conflict of interest: Dr. Gupta has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. ish has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. gupta has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. malhotra has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. Caminero has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. singla has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. kumar has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. yadav has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. dev has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. agrawal has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. kohli has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. sen has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. chakrabarti has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Dr. gupta has nothing to disclose.
- Received September 6, 2020.
- Accepted October 13, 2020.
- Copyright ©ERS 2020
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