A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients

Bacterial coinfections which are infections present early in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections before hospitalizations during the 2020 pandemic are rare. A 66-year-old male presented to the ED with a two-week history of subjective fever, dyspnea, and productive cough. He w...

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Autores principales: Ibrahim, Lubaina, Manjani, Lokesh, Nassar, Ahmad, Mahmood, Aleena R, Ammar, Hussam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7957842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738165
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13322
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author Ibrahim, Lubaina
Manjani, Lokesh
Nassar, Ahmad
Mahmood, Aleena R
Ammar, Hussam
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description Bacterial coinfections which are infections present early in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections before hospitalizations during the 2020 pandemic are rare. A 66-year-old male presented to the ED with a two-week history of subjective fever, dyspnea, and productive cough. He was diagnosed with coinfection of severe COVID-19 pneumonia and pneumococcal infection. He recovered from both infections and was discharged home. This report presents the features of this case and reviews the literature of similar cases of coinfection of COVID-19 pneumonia and pneumococcal infection.
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spelling pubmed-79578422021-03-17 A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients Ibrahim, Lubaina Manjani, Lokesh Nassar, Ahmad Mahmood, Aleena R Ammar, Hussam Cureus Internal Medicine Bacterial coinfections which are infections present early in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections before hospitalizations during the 2020 pandemic are rare. A 66-year-old male presented to the ED with a two-week history of subjective fever, dyspnea, and productive cough. He was diagnosed with coinfection of severe COVID-19 pneumonia and pneumococcal infection. He recovered from both infections and was discharged home. This report presents the features of this case and reviews the literature of similar cases of coinfection of COVID-19 pneumonia and pneumococcal infection. Cureus 2021-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7957842/ /pubmed/33738165 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13322 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ibrahim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Ibrahim, Lubaina
Manjani, Lokesh
Nassar, Ahmad
Mahmood, Aleena R
Ammar, Hussam
A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
title A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
title_full A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
title_fullStr A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
title_full_unstemmed A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
title_short A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
title_sort double whammy: a case report and review of the literature on pneumococcal coinfection in covid-19 patients
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7957842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738165
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13322
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