Clinical characteristics of critically ill patients co-infected with SARS-CoV-2 and the influenza virus in Wuhan, China

Objective: To delineate the clinical characteristics of critically ill COVID-19 patients co-infected with influenza. Methods: This study included adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 form Tongji Hospital (Wuhan, China), with or without influenza, and compared their clinical characteristics. Results: Among 93 patients, 44 died and 49 were discharged. Forty-four (47.3%) were infected with influenza virus A and two (2.2%) with influenza virus B. Twenty-two (50.0%) of the non-survivors and 24 (49.0%) of the survivors were infected with the influenza virus. Critically ill COVID-19 patients with influenza were more prone to cardiac injury than those without influenza. For the laboratory indicators at admission the following were higher in non-survivors with influenza than in those without influenza: white blood cell counts, neutrophil counts, levels of tumor necrosis factor-α, D-dimer value, and proportion of elevated creatinine. Conclusion: The results showed that a high proportion of COVID-19 patients were co-infected with influenza in Tongji Hospital, with no significant difference in the proportion of co-infection between survivors and non-survivors. The critically ill COVID-19 patients with influenza exhibited more severe inflammation and organ injury, indicating that co-infection with the influenza virus may induce an earlier and more frequently occurring cytokine storm..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:96

Enthalten in:

International Journal of Infectious Diseases - 96(2020), Seite 683-687

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Simin Ma [VerfasserIn]
Xiaoquan Lai [VerfasserIn]
Zhe Chen [VerfasserIn]
Shenghao Tu [VerfasserIn]
Kai Qin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Co-infection
Cytokine storm
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Influenza
Organ injury

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.068

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ040242781