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Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19
Herein, we describe a case report of a critically ill patient, a 48-year-old man without comorbidities admitted to the hospital with a serious type 1 (hypoxemic) respiratory insufficiency and confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. After 5 days with invasive mechanical ventilation, the patient developed a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34835494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112369 |
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author | Méndez, Lucía Ferreira, Jorge Caneiras, Cátia |
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description | Herein, we describe a case report of a critically ill patient, a 48-year-old man without comorbidities admitted to the hospital with a serious type 1 (hypoxemic) respiratory insufficiency and confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. After 5 days with invasive mechanical ventilation, the patient developed a bacterial co-infection, namely a pneumonia by Hafnia alvei, requiring the last line of respiratory support: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Subsequently, his clinical situation gradually stabilized, until he was discharged from the hospital on day 61, being accompanied in ambulatory consultation by the physical medicine and pulmonology department during the post-COVID-19 recovery. H. alvei is a Gram-negative bacterium that is rarely isolated from human specimens and is rarely considered to be pathogenic. However, COVID-19 disease can cause substantial organ dysfunction and can be associated with bacterial secondary infections which can favor the emergence of rare infectious diseases by uncommon microorganisms. |
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spelling | pubmed-86203502021-11-27 Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 Méndez, Lucía Ferreira, Jorge Caneiras, Cátia Microorganisms Case Report Herein, we describe a case report of a critically ill patient, a 48-year-old man without comorbidities admitted to the hospital with a serious type 1 (hypoxemic) respiratory insufficiency and confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. After 5 days with invasive mechanical ventilation, the patient developed a bacterial co-infection, namely a pneumonia by Hafnia alvei, requiring the last line of respiratory support: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Subsequently, his clinical situation gradually stabilized, until he was discharged from the hospital on day 61, being accompanied in ambulatory consultation by the physical medicine and pulmonology department during the post-COVID-19 recovery. H. alvei is a Gram-negative bacterium that is rarely isolated from human specimens and is rarely considered to be pathogenic. However, COVID-19 disease can cause substantial organ dysfunction and can be associated with bacterial secondary infections which can favor the emergence of rare infectious diseases by uncommon microorganisms. MDPI 2021-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8620350/ /pubmed/34835494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112369 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Méndez, Lucía Ferreira, Jorge Caneiras, Cátia Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 |
title | Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 |
title_full | Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 |
title_short | Hafnia alvei Pneumonia: A Rare Cause of Infection in a Patient with COVID-19 |
title_sort | hafnia alvei pneumonia: a rare cause of infection in a patient with covid-19 |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34835494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112369 |
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