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Dexamethasone therapy and rates of secondary pulmonary and bloodstream infections in critically ill COVID-19 patients

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic. Bacterial superinfections seem to be associated with higher mortality in COVID-19 patients in intensive care units (ICUs). However, details on the prevalence and species distribution of secondary infections are limited. Moreover,...

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Autores principales: Rothe, Kathrin, Lahmer, Tobias, Rasch, Sebastian, Schneider, Jochen, Spinner, Christoph D., Wallnöfer, Fabian, Wurst, Milena, Schmid, Roland M., Waschulzik, Birgit, Fuest, Kristina, Kriescher, Silja, Schneider, Gerhard, Busch, Dirk H., Feihl, Susanne, Heim, Markus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34760275
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/mrm.2021.793