Editorial: The intersection of COVID-19 and tropical diseases

Abstract

The endemicity of tropical diseases posed the emergence of an epidemiological scenario marked by overlaps with the progressive circulation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). With the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 in areas endemic to tropical pathogens during regional epidemics, the occurrence and detection of multiple types of coinfections are therefore anticipated. As has been seen with other diseases, communicable and non-communicable, such comorbidity and coinfection outcomes may represent a risk factor for worsening or modifying the evolution to severe and fatal COVID-19, as was already seen with diabetes, hypertension, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis, among other public health conditions...