ArticleJournal of preventive medicine and hygiene2023
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the infectious disease epidemiology.
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- Resurgence of scabies in Italy: The new life of an old disease.Parasite epidemiology and control · 2024Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on infectious diseases reporting.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
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- Temporal trends in pediatric intestinal intussusception following the COVID-19 outbreak in Seoul, Korea.Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric SocietyObservational
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Abstract
Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a huge impact on different aspects of public health. Mandatory notifications are a fundamental tool to have a general picture of infection disease spread in a population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on infectious disease epidemiology. Methods: We collected and analyzed all the infectious disease notifications made in the pre-pandemic (2017-2019) and the pandemic (2020-2022) three-years periods in the provincial territory of Messina, Italy. Results: The total number of notifications significantly decreased by 41% in the pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic one, with very high reduction of certain disease notifications such as measles and varicella. Similarly, other airborne infections, such as meningococcal meningitis and tuberculosis, underwent an important decrease. Conversely, an increase was found for some infections such as syphilis and, especially, scabies that reported a percentage value of +159.9%. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the possibility of microbial spread following to the lockdown and, in addition, to the constant use of face masks and other personal protective equipment, the frequent hand-washing, more ventilation of the living locals, and less gathering, surely reduced the occasions and the possibility to get many infections. On the other hands, the pandemic had a negative impact on scabies diffusion probably due to different causes among which the worsening of some poor realities, the restrictions that forced people to live in strict contact and, especially, the worsening of the conditions of the elderly living in care homes.
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