Bacterial co-infections and secondary infections and their antimicrobial resistance in Covid-19 patients during the second pandemic wave
In: GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, Jg. 19 (2024-03-01), S. 10
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Background: COVID-19 pneumonia with an unusual outbreak is considered a new, global public health threat. Microbiological characterization of co-infections in patients with COVID-19 is important, and antimicrobial use is high. We aimed to describe microbiologically confirmed co-infections and the antimicrobial resistance of the causative pathogens.Method: From January to December 2020, we tested 1,301 patients who were COVID-19 positive. We received clinical samples (blood, respiratory and sterile body fluids) of COVID-19 patients who were suspected to have bacterial co-infections. Samples were processed and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed based on the CLSI recommendation. Demographic, clinical, laboratory and outcome data of those with positive cultures were collected.Result: A total of 1301 COVID-19 patients (568 from the COVID ward and 733 from ICU) were admitted to the Covid care ward of a tertiary care hospital. 363 samples were sent for culturing and testing antibiotic susceptibility, of which 131 (36%) were found to be culture-positive (9rom ICUs, 41 from wards). Out of the 143 total isolates thus obtained from 131 samples, the majority (62.2%) were Gram-negative bacteria, and most of them were (70.8%) multidrug resistant.Discussion: Bacterial co-infection in patients with COVID-19 is more commonly reported in the severely ill hospitalized individuals (58%), particularly in the ICU (73.3%) setting. In terms of mortality, almost half of co-infected patients died (51.1%). In most of them, the cause of death was found to be sepsis with post-COVID ARDS (58%).Conclusion: Co-infection in COVID-19 patients may affect the outcome in terms of increasing the hospital stay.
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Bacterial co-infections and secondary infections and their antimicrobial resistance in Covid-19 patients during the second pandemic wave
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Attal, Ruchita ; Deotale, Vijayshri |
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Zeitschrift: | GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, Jg. 19 (2024-03-01), S. 10 |
Veröffentlichung: | German Medical Science GMS Publishing House, 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2196-5226 (print) |
DOI: | 10.3205/dgkh000465 |
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