Quantifying disruptions to tuberculosis case detection in Brazilian states during the COVID-19 pandemic
Disruptions to the Brazilian healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic prevented tens of thousands of individuals with symptomatic disease from receiving a TB diagnosis. While some Brazilian states recovered rapidly to pre-pandemic levels of TB case detection, many did not and the rates of missed TB cases remained high through 2021.
Authors
- Mauro Niskier Sanchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0472-1804)
- Ethel Leonor Nóia Maciel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-3355)
- Márcia C. Castro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-2795)
- Fernanda Dockhorn Costa Johansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1762-9484)
- Joshua L. Warren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6274-6970)
- Patrícia Bartholomay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4881-0630)
- Daniele Maria Pelissari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0760-1875)
- Melanie H. Chitwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9289-5694)
- Ted Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8091-7198)
- Nicolas A. Menzies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2571-016X)
- José Nildo de Barros Silva Júnior (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-8462)
- Luiza Ohana Harada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6165-5232)
Institutions
- Universidade de Brasília (BR)
- Yale University (US)
- Department of Public Health (AS)
- Yale New Haven Health System (US)
- Ministério da Saúde (BR)
- Harvard Global Health Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf146
- Primary Topic
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00