TY - JOUR T1 - Gauging the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis services: a global study JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.01786-2021 VL - 58 IS - 5 SP - 2101786 AU - Giovanni Battista Migliori AU - Pei Min Thong AU - Jan-Willem Alffenaar AU - Justin Denholm AU - Marina Tadolini AU - Fatma Alyaquobi AU - François-Xavier Blanc AU - Danilo Buonsenso AU - Jin-Gun Cho AU - Luigi Ruffo Codecasa AU - Edvardas Danila AU - Raquel Duarte AU - José-María García-García AU - Gina Gualano AU - Adrian Rendon AU - Denise Rossato Silva AU - Mahamadou Bassirou Souleymane AU - Sai Meng Tham AU - Tania A. Thomas AU - Simon Tiberi AU - Zarir F. Udwadia AU - Delia Goletti AU - Rosella Centis AU - Lia D'Ambrosio AU - Giovanni Sotgiu AU - Catherine W.M. Ong AU - for the Global Tuberculosis Network Y1 - 2021/11/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/58/5/2101786.abstract N2 - The effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) disease and TB services emerged in the beginning of 2020 [1, 2]. Epidemiological and clinical studies, including mortality rates of the first cohort of patients with COVID-19 and TB co-infection were described [3, 4]. Several reports from individual countries suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected TB services [5–9], including validation by modelling studies [10]. The Global Tuberculosis Network (GTN) reported that the COVID-19 pandemic affected TB services in 33 TB centres from 16 countries in the first 4 months of 2020 [11]. An increased use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic was observed in some TB centres [11]. The major limitations of that study were the short period of observation (January to April 2020 compared to the same period in 2019) and the limited number of variables analysed [11–14].This global study of 43 TB centres from 19 countries demonstrates the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on TB services. Newly diagnosed TB disease, drug-resistant TB, TB deaths, outpatient clinic attendances and newly diagnosed TB infection were reduced. https://bit.ly/3sdHbfkThe article is part of the activities of the Global Tuberculosis Network (GTN); and of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tradate, ITA-80, 2017-2020- GBM/RC/LDA.). We thank the GREPI (Groupe de Recherche et d'Enseignement en Pneumo-Infectiologie) a working group from SPLF (Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française); for gathering information. ER -