Tuberculosis — United States, 2020
Autor: | Robert H. Pratt, Molly Deutsch-Feldman, Julie L. Self, Sandy F. Price, Clarisse A. Tsang |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Tuberculosis Adolescent Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Emigrants and Immigrants Disease 01 natural sciences Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health Information Management Weight loss Health care Pandemic Ethnicity Humans Medicine Full Report 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics Young adult Child Aged business.industry Transmission (medicine) Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Racial Groups 010102 general mathematics COVID-19 General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease United States Child Preschool Population Surveillance Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S medicine.symptom business |
Zdroj: | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
ISSN: | 1545-861X 0149-2195 |
Popis: | Tuberculosis (TB) disease incidence has decreased steadily since 1993 (1), a result of decades of work by local TB programs to detect, treat, and prevent TB disease and transmission. During 2020, a total of 7,163 TB cases were provisionally reported to CDC's National Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS) by the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (DC), a relative reduction of 20%, compared with the number of cases reported during 2019.* TB incidence per 100,000 persons was 2.2 during 2020, compared with 2.7 during 2019. Since 2010, TB incidence has decreased by an average of 2%-3% annually (1). Pandemic mitigation efforts and reduced travel might have contributed to the reported decrease. The magnitude and breadth of the decrease suggest potentially missed or delayed TB diagnoses. Health care providers should consider TB disease when evaluating patients with signs and symptoms consistent with TB (e.g., cough of >2 weeks in duration, unintentional weight loss, and hemoptysis), especially when diagnostic tests are negative for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In addition, members of the public should be encouraged to follow up with their health care providers for any respiratory illness that persists or returns after initial treatment. The steep, unexpected decline in TB cases raises concerns of missed cases, and further work is in progress to better understand factors associated with the decline. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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