Coinfections among hospitalized patients with covid-19 in the first pandemic wave

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BACKGROUND: COVID19 is the novel respiratory illness caused by SARS-CoV-2. The presence of other potentially pathogenic microorganisms could worsen the prognosis of these patients.

AIM: The study aims to describe coinfections in COVID-19 patients and contrast it between standard ward and critical care patients at Hospital Central de la Defensa Gómez Ulla (HCDGU).

METHODS: A retrospective study was carried out of patients with COVID-19 confirmed with RTPCR admitted to the HCDGU from March 5, 2020 to May 7 of 2020.

FINDINGS: Of a total of 703 patients with COVID-19, 75(10.7%) had other microbiologically confirmed infections: 9% (58/648) in standard ward patients and 31.5%(17/54) in critical care patients. In total 86 samples of the 75 patients presented some microorganism; clinically relevant bacteraemias, 50%, respiratory cultures, 32.6% and pneumococcal positive antigens, 17.4%.

CONCLUSIONS: We found a low frequency of microorganism coinfection in COVID-19 patients, however in critical care these coinfections increased considerably.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:101

Enthalten in:

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 101(2021), 3 vom: 10. Nov., Seite 115416

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zamora-Cintas, María Isabel [VerfasserIn]
López, Diana Jiménez [VerfasserIn]
Blanco, Ana Collazos [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez, Tamara Martín [VerfasserIn]
Segarra, Javier Mombiedro [VerfasserIn]
Novales, Javier Membrillo [VerfasserIn]
Ferriol, María Francisca Ramos [VerfasserIn]
Maestre, Maria Mateo [VerfasserIn]
Sacristán, María Simón [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coinfection
Hospitalized patients
Journal Article
Microorganisms

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Date Completed 13.10.2021

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115416

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329348299