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. 2021 Jan-Feb;27(1):67-69.
doi: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2020.05.013. Epub 2020 Jun 6.

COVID-19 effects on tuberculosis care in Sierra Leone

D Buonsenso  1 , F Iodice  2 , J Sorba Biala  3 , D Goletti  4
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COVID-19 effects on tuberculosis care in Sierra Leone

D Buonsenso et al. Pulmonology. 2021 Jan-Feb.
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Number of presumptive TB and confirmed TB cases in Tombo Health Centre, Sierra Leone. While a stable trend in TB diagnosis during the first months of 2018, 2019 and 2020 was observed (a), a significant drop was reported in April 2020 (b), after lockdown was declared by the government. * Proportion of TB cases over the total patients enrolled as “presumptive TB patients” coming to the outpatient TB unit of Tombo, Western Rural Area, Sierra Leone.
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