Epidemiology and course of infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Report 1. HIV infection, hepatitis c and tuberculosis

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Pathological conditions of various natures are capable of mutual aggravation, significantly affecting the overall burden of the disease, its manifestations and severity. This analytical review is devoted to the interaction between pathogens of socially significant infections — human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), hepatitis C, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and SARS-CoV-2. Foreign and own data covering the issues of syndemia and interference of pathogens are presented. The results of epidemiological analysis in the North-Western Federal District (NWFD) are presented, which demonstrated the absence of a significant impact of the pandemic caused by a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) on the epidemic incidence of HIV, viral hepatitis C or tuberculosis at the population level, which may be due to various mechanisms of transmission of infections and the required infectious dose of the pathogen. The absence of a negative effect of COVID-19 on mortality rates in HIV infection, viral hepatitis C and tuberculosis in the territories of the NWFD was noted. Special attention is paid to the clinical picture of the combined course of HIV infection, tuberculosis and COVID-19. The data are demonstrated, which allow us to conclude that the worst prognosis and risk of death are patients in the progressive stage of the disease, which is characterized by the presence of opportunistic infections, especially AIDS-indicator conditions, with disseminated tuberculosis and in the cirrhotic stage of viral hepatitis. The significance of severe manifestations of infectious pathology in cases of deterioration of the prognosis of COVID-19 is shown. Based on the experience of two years of the pandemic, the problems contributing to the syndrome of new coronavirus infection and other conditions, as well as the causes of high mortality from COVID-19, which include: limited resources for non-infectious areas of medical care; insufficient funding for planned and high-tech care; a decrease in the volume of primary diagnosis and detection of infectious and non-infectious pathology; delayed and limited research in areas; distraction of specialists from preventive and dispensary work outside of infectious pathology; shortage of medicines and consumables; social instability and deterioration of the well-being of the population, characteristic of pandemics. The role of a personalized approach to patients with concomitant somatic and infectious diseases as a preventive measure for the severe course and complications of COVID-19 is determined.

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Nikolay A. Belyakov

Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University; St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute

Email: beliakov.akad.spb@yandex.ru

PhD, MD (Medicine), Professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Department of Socially Significant Infections, Chief Researcher, Head of North-West District Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg; 14, Mira str., St. Petersburg, 197101

Ekaterina V. Boeva

Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University; St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute

Author for correspondence.
Email: kathrine.boeva@gmail.com

PhD (Medicine), Assistant Professor, Department of Socially Significant Infections, Infectious Disease Doctor, Head of Department of Chronic Viral Infection in North-West District Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg; 14, Mira str., St. Petersburg, 197101

Zinaida M. Zagdyn

Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology

Email: dinmetyan@mail.ru

PhD, MD (Medicine), Senior Researcher, Scientific and Methodological Department

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Elena V. Esaulenko

St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute

Email: eve-gpmu@mail.ru

PhD, MD (Medicine), Professor, Head of the Viral Hepatitis Laboratory

Russian Federation, 14, Mira str., St. Petersburg, 197101

Dmitry A. Lioznov

Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University

Email: dlioznov@yandex.ru

PhD, MD (Medicine), Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Olga E. Simakina

St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute

Email: r154ao@gmail.com

PhD (Medicine), Researcher, Laboratory of Immunology and Virology of HIV infection

Russian Federation, 14, Mira str., St. Petersburg, 197101

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