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cord-292451-2tpef19n	Komiya, Kosaku	The COVID-19 pandemic and the true incidence of tuberculosis in Japan	2020-07-07		.txt	text/plain	398	38	47	title: The COVID-19 pandemic and the true incidence of tuberculosis in Japan A recent report in the present journal focused on the decreased incidence of tuberculosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. 1 A declining trend in influenza following the COVID-19 outbreak has already been indicated in Brazil, Singapore and Japan. These prevention measures for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission may have contributed to a decline in many types of infectious diseases. 1 However, whether or not the decline in tuberculosis incidence is actually due to these prevention measures, as with other respiratory infectious diseases, is unclear. 6 As such, the infection control measures enacted to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission a short time after the COVID-19 outbreak are not expected to influence the trend in tuberculosis incidence. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Tuberculosis in Taiwan.	./cache/cord-292451-2tpef19n.txt	./txt/cord-292451-2tpef19n.txt