Threat of Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia in Severe COVID-19 Patients

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading worldwide with unprecedented rapidity. is reported to frequently cause bacterial complications in patients with COVID-19. We herein present two additional cases of pneumonia involving such patients. The first case was an obese 48-year-old man wi...

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Published in:Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) CA), 2022-02, Vol.14 (2), p.e22486
Main Authors: Tanaka, Shuichi, Yamamoto, Koichiro, Hagiya, Hideharu, Hasegawa, Kou, Otsuka, Fumio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibiotics
Bacterial infections
Cardiovascular disease
Case reports
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Emergency Medicine
Health risks
Hypertension
Infectious Disease
Liver diseases
Obesity
Pulmonology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Staphylococcus infections
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Summary:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading worldwide with unprecedented rapidity. is reported to frequently cause bacterial complications in patients with COVID-19. We herein present two additional cases of pneumonia involving such patients. The first case was an obese 48-year-old man without any particular underlying diseases. The second case was another patient, a 72-year-old man, with hypertension, dyslipidemia, and steatohepatitis. Both patients developed methicillin-susceptible  pneumonia in the clinical course of COVID-19, to which antibiotic therapy with cefazolin was effectively administered. Through these cases, we emphasize that secondary infections should be well cared with a high degree of caution in a case of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
ISSN:2168-8184
2168-8184
DOI:10.7759/cureus.22486