Community-acquired and hospital-acquired respiratory tract infection and bloodstream infection in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia

SARS-CoV-2 may cause acute lung injury, and secondary infections are thus relevant complications in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. However, detailed information on community- and hospital-acquired infections among patients with COVID-19 pneumonia is scarce. We identified 220 SARS-CoV-2-positive p...

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Published in:Journal of intensive care 2021-01, Vol.9 (1), p.10-10, Article 10
Main Authors: Søgaard, Kirstine K, Baettig, Veronika, Osthoff, Michael, Marsch, Stephan, Leuzinger, Karoline, Schweitzer, Michael, Meier, Julian, Bassetti, Stefano, Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H, Khanna, Nina, Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah, Weisser, Maja, Battegay, Manuel, Hirsch, Hans H, Pargger, Hans, Siegemund, Martin, Egli, Adrian
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Language:English
Subjects:
Antibiotics
Antifungal agents
Bacterial infections
Bacterial secondary infections
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Health aspects
Hospital patients
Lung diseases
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Mycoses
Nosocomial infections
Pneumonia
SARS-CoV-2
Sepsis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Ventilators
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Summary:SARS-CoV-2 may cause acute lung injury, and secondary infections are thus relevant complications in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. However, detailed information on community- and hospital-acquired infections among patients with COVID-19 pneumonia is scarce. We identified 220 SARS-CoV-2-positive patients hospitalized at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland (between 25 February and 31 May 2020). We excluded patients who declined the general consent (n = 12), patients without clinical evidence of pneumonia (n = 29), and patients hospitalized for
ISSN:2052-0492
2052-0492
DOI:10.1186/s40560-021-00526-y