Case report of SARS-CoV-2 with secondary Clostridioides difficile infection

There has been an overuse of antibiotics in most patients suffering from COVID-19 which predisposes patients to hospital acquired C. difficile Infection (CDI). Also, COVID infection of the gastrointestinal tract also predisposes the patient to CDI. We here present a fatal case of SARS-CoV-2 coinfect...

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Autores principales: Batra, Priyam, Khullar, Swati, Choudhary, Mamta, Saikiran, K.V.P., Kaginalkar, Ananya, Singh, Sheetal, Mohan, Anant, Chaudhry, Rama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10204715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37573046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2023.01.014
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author Batra, Priyam
Khullar, Swati
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Singh, Sheetal
Mohan, Anant
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description There has been an overuse of antibiotics in most patients suffering from COVID-19 which predisposes patients to hospital acquired C. difficile Infection (CDI). Also, COVID infection of the gastrointestinal tract also predisposes the patient to CDI. We here present a fatal case of SARS-CoV-2 coinfection with CDI.
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spelling pubmed-102047152023-05-23 Case report of SARS-CoV-2 with secondary Clostridioides difficile infection Batra, Priyam Khullar, Swati Choudhary, Mamta Saikiran, K.V.P. Kaginalkar, Ananya Singh, Sheetal Mohan, Anant Chaudhry, Rama Indian J Med Microbiol Case Report There has been an overuse of antibiotics in most patients suffering from COVID-19 which predisposes patients to hospital acquired C. difficile Infection (CDI). Also, COVID infection of the gastrointestinal tract also predisposes the patient to CDI. We here present a fatal case of SARS-CoV-2 coinfection with CDI. Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023 2023-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10204715/ /pubmed/37573046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2023.01.014 Text en © 2023 Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Mohan, Anant
Chaudhry, Rama
Case report of SARS-CoV-2 with secondary Clostridioides difficile infection
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title_short Case report of SARS-CoV-2 with secondary Clostridioides difficile infection
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