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Item Caracterización y mortalidad en coinfección covid-19 y tuberculosis pulmonar: Revisión de alcance(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2024) Chaves Molina, Lizethe Dayana; Parody Wadi, Fernando David; Martínez Hinojosa, Harrison; Escobar Delgado, Julián (Director)Introduction: Infectious diseases represent a public health problem, both emerging ones such as COVID-19 and re-emerging ones such as tuberculosis, a problem that is complicated by their appearance in the form of coinfection, with an unclear increase in the risk of mortality due to a causal association that is not very well known, which is why this review was carried out with the main of highlighting information on the interaction and mortality comorbidities between tuberculosis and Covid- 19. Methodology. An exhaustive scoping review was conducted of research published in databases worldwide since December 2019. The findings are presented in narrative form, complemented with tables and diagrams. Results: 22 articles, 100% observational, published in Asia (41%), America (23%), Europe (18%) and others (18%); presents in patients with a mean age of 49 years, male 88%, symptoms of triad of fever, dyspnea and cough, 43% of patients with coinfection present comorbidities DM (31%), HTN (14%), Smoking (10%), previous history of tuberculosis in 41%, and with findings of mortality associated with infection 11%, mortality relationship with comorbidities Pearson index of 0.054. Conclusions: There is an adequate level of scientific evidence about COVID-19 and tuberculosis coinfection, clarifying that the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of coinfection are established by the pathophysiological mechanism of the lung disease and that it occurs with a low mortality not associated with comorbidities pre-existing