COVID-19 Hampered Diagnosis of TB Infection in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom

Affiliations

• ¹ Tuberculosis Research Programme (PII-TB) SEPAR, Barcelona, Spain.
• ² Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Department of Respiratory Medicine, L'Institut du thorax, Nantes, France.
• ³ Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
• ⁴ Respiratory Diseases Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS, Tradate, Italy.
• ⁵ TB Reference Centre, Villa Marelli Institute, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Public Health Consulting Group, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ⁷ National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) 'L. Spallanzani' - IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
• ⁸ Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University, London, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹¹ Infectious Disease Translational Research Programme, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore; Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹² Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
• ¹³ Respiratory Diseases Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS, Tradate, Italy. Electronic address: giovannibattista.migliori@icsmaugeri.it.