Urinary antigen testing for respiratory infection during COVID-19: The microbiologist as a diagnostic steward

The use of antimicrobials in the management of community-acquired COVID-19 is commonplace but evidence for coinfection with common bacterial pathogens to justify their use is lacking. We undertook a retrospective review of all respiratory cultures, blood cultures and urinary antigen tests in COVID-1...

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Autores principales: Williams, Tom, Blagdon Snell, Luke, Edgeworth, Jonathan, O'Hara, Geraldine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8844876/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinpr.2021.100114
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description The use of antimicrobials in the management of community-acquired COVID-19 is commonplace but evidence for coinfection with common bacterial pathogens to justify their use is lacking. We undertook a retrospective review of all respiratory cultures, blood cultures and urinary antigen tests in COVID-19 patients looking for co-infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila, and specifically to judge the utility of urinary antigen testing. 2674 GSTT patients were included who had a positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 performed at GSTT between 03-March-2020 and 31-Jan-2021 and who had at least one other microbiology sample for review.
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spelling pubmed-88448762022-02-15 Urinary antigen testing for respiratory infection during COVID-19: The microbiologist as a diagnostic steward Williams, Tom Blagdon Snell, Luke Edgeworth, Jonathan O'Hara, Geraldine Clin Infect Pract Article The use of antimicrobials in the management of community-acquired COVID-19 is commonplace but evidence for coinfection with common bacterial pathogens to justify their use is lacking. We undertook a retrospective review of all respiratory cultures, blood cultures and urinary antigen tests in COVID-19 patients looking for co-infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila, and specifically to judge the utility of urinary antigen testing. 2674 GSTT patients were included who had a positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 performed at GSTT between 03-March-2020 and 31-Jan-2021 and who had at least one other microbiology sample for review. Elsevier Ltd 2022-01 2022-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8844876/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinpr.2021.100114 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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