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Low prevalence of bloodstream infection and high blood culture contamination rates in patients with COVID-19

PURPOSE: In the management of COVID-19, knowledge is lacking on the frequency of secondary bacterial infections and on how empirical antibiotic therapy should be used. In the present study, we aimed to compare blood culture (BC) results of a COVID-19 patient cohort with two cohorts of patients witho...

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Autores principales: Yu, David, Ininbergs, Karolina, Hedman, Karolina, Giske, Christian G., Strålin, Kristoffer, Özenci, Volkan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33226995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242533