Tuberculosis and Covid 19 Co Infection

Abstract

Samia Elzwi

Tuberculosis (TB) is still common in many parts of the world, and requires monitoring, clinical assessment, testing, contact tracing, confirmation of diagnosis, and treatment regimens that are either supervised or unsupervised for effective eradication. We examine the problems posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to tuberculosis management and the current policies in place to address them.

There are some similarities between tuberculosis and respiratory viral infectious illnesses, such as COVID-19. They mostly infect susceptible populations by droplet transfer or other infectious source transmission pathways. Acute respiratory infectious illnesses affect patients with tuberculosis and as Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide patients with active tuberculosis more likely to have covid -19 infection, in this review paper we examine when two infection clash.

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