COVID-19–Associated Mold Infection in Critically Ill Patients, Chile

Patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may have COVID-19–associated invasive mold infection (CAIMI) develop. We report 16 cases of CAIMI among 146 nonimmunocompromised patients with severe COVID-19 at an academic hospital in Santiago, Chile. These rates correspond to a CAIMI incidence o...

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Autores principales: Rabagliati, Ricardo, Rodríguez, Nicolás, Núñez, Carolina, Huete, Alvaro, Bravo, Sebastian, Garcia, Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33760726
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2705.204412
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Sumario:Patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may have COVID-19–associated invasive mold infection (CAIMI) develop. We report 16 cases of CAIMI among 146 nonimmunocompromised patients with severe COVID-19 at an academic hospital in Santiago, Chile. These rates correspond to a CAIMI incidence of 11%; the mortality rate for these patients was 31.2%.

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