The impact of COVID-19 national lockdowns on drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A spatial analysis
Harrington K, Gandhi N, Shah N, Naidoo K, Auld S, Andrews J, Brust J, Lutchminarain K, Coe M, Willis F, Campbell A, Cohen T, Jenness S, Waller L, Investigators O. The impact of COVID-19 national lockdowns on drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A spatial analysis. Annals Of Epidemiology 2024, 97: 44-51. PMID: 39038747, PMCID: PMC11408097, DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.07.044.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchKwaZulu-Natal ProvinceTB diagnosisDrug resistanceBayesian conditional autoregressive modelProspective cohort studyKwaZulu-NatalCOVID-19 national lockdownDrug-resistant tuberculosisRate of diagnosisCOVID-19 mitigation strategiesStatistics South AfricaSpatial analysisSpatial distributionMunicipal characteristicsCohort studyDR-TBNotification ratesTB notificationsSouth AfricaSurface mappingRate of casesRelative-riskCOVID-19Conditional autoregressive modelSpatial correlation