The Impact of COVID-19 Interventions on Influenza and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection

Frontiers in Public Health

Gang Li¹  Yiman Geng¹  Leiliang Zhang² 

[1] Department of Clinical Laboratory, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Peolple’s Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China;Institute of Basic Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Shandong, China;Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Shandong, China;

关键词: COVID-19;    SARS-CoV-2;    influenza;    Mycobacterium tuberculosis;    non-pharmaceutical interventions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2021.672568

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

A series of public health interventions have been implemented to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in China. However, the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to COVID-19 on the incidence of the influenza virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections is not clear. In current study, we analyzed surveillance data on influenza and Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Henan Provincial People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China from 2019 to 2020. The monthly positive test rate for influenza and Mycobacterium tuberculosis to estimate transmissibility changes was calculated. The positive detection rate of influenza A declined significantly during the implementation of inventions in 2020, from a total positive rate of 17.69% in 2019 to 5.77% in 2020. Similarly, a 2.15% reduction in positive detective rate was seen for influenza B, from a total positive rate of 5.15% in 2019 to 3% in 2020. The positive rate curve of Mycobacterium tuberculosis measured by x-pert in 2020 remained above the curve in 2019 from March to June, and August, showing the rising trend under these precautions. Our study suggests that non-pharmaceutical public health interventions likely reduced influenza transmission significantly and have less effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in 2020.

【 授权许可】

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