COVID-19 and the Epidemiological, Diagnostic, Clinical and Therapeutical Challenges of the Cocirculation and Coinfection with Tropical Pathogens

Resumen

Before the beginning of the pandemic of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused, by the infection due to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there was already concern in many regions of the world, as occurred in Latin America but certainly also in Africa and Asia, regarding the epidemiology of communicable diseases in these areas, including tropical diseases [1-4].

As usually occurs in other epidemics, during the pandemic there is high suspicion on COVID-19 diagnosis, especially when presenting with classical associated symptoms; many of them, as happens with fever, that may overlap with many other infectious and tropical diseases, including dengue, malaria, leptospirosis, acute Chagas disease, salmonellosis, among many other [5-8].