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Comment
. 2020 Aug 20;56(2):2002328.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.02328-2020. Print 2020 Aug.

On tuberculosis and COVID-19 co-infection

Marina Tadolini  1 , José-María García-García  2 , François-Xavier Blanc  3 , Sergey Borisov  4 , Delia Goletti  5 , Ilaria Motta  6 , Luigi Ruffo Codecasa  7 , Simon Tiberi  8   9 , Giovanni Sotgiu  10 , Giovanni Battista Migliori  11 ; GTN TB/COVID group
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Comment

On tuberculosis and COVID-19 co-infection

Marina Tadolini et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

COVID-19 may boost tuberculosis given infection and mortality, further studies are needed https://bit.ly/2Z2r5XO

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: M. Tadolini has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: J-M. García-García has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: F-X. Blanc has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Borisov has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: D. Goletti has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: I. Motta has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: L.R. Codecasa has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Tiberi has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: G. Sotgiu has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: G.B. Migliori has nothing to disclose.

Comment on

  • Active tuberculosis, sequelae and COVID-19 co-infection: first cohort of 49 cases.
    Tadolini M, Codecasa LR, García-García JM, Blanc FX, Borisov S, Alffenaar JW, Andréjak C, Bachez P, Bart PA, Belilovski E, Cardoso-Landivar J, Centis R, D'Ambrosio L, Luiza De Souza-Galvão M, Dominguez-Castellano A, Dourmane S, Fréchet Jachym M, Froissart A, Giacomet V, Goletti D, Grard S, Gualano G, Izadifar A, Le Du D, Marín Royo M, Mazza-Stalder J, Motta I, Ong CWM, Palmieri F, Rivière F, Rodrigo T, Silva DR, Sánchez-Montalvá A, Saporiti M, Scarpellini P, Schlemmer F, Spanevello A, Sumarokova E, Tabernero E, Tambyah PA, Tiberi S, Torre A, Visca D, Zabaleta Murguiondo M, Sotgiu G, Migliori GB. Tadolini M, et al. Eur Respir J. 2020 Jul 9;56(1):2001398. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01398-2020. Print 2020 Jul. Eur Respir J. 2020. PMID: 32457198 Free PMC article.
  • The (in)significance of TB and COVID-19 co-infection.
    Khurana AK, Aggarwal D. Khurana AK, et al. Eur Respir J. 2020 Aug 20;56(2):2002105. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02105-2020. Print 2020 Aug. Eur Respir J. 2020. PMID: 32554537 Free PMC article.

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