Elizabethkingia meningoseptica Infection in COVID-19 Patients

Bacterial and fungal coinfections including the emergence of antimicrobial resistance are well-recognized in the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections. We present three cases of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (EM), superinfections in COVID-19 patients admitted between the period of A...

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Autores principales: Chaponda, Mas, Shaukat, Adila, Dulli, Mohammad Wajeh, Sioufi, Stephanie, Al Wali, Walid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9663699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407258
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30337
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author Chaponda, Mas
Shaukat, Adila
Dulli, Mohammad Wajeh
Sioufi, Stephanie
Al Wali, Walid
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description Bacterial and fungal coinfections including the emergence of antimicrobial resistance are well-recognized in the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections. We present three cases of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (EM), superinfections in COVID-19 patients admitted between the period of April 2021 and May 2021. All cases were intubated; had central venous catheters, had received prior antibiotics and antivirals as well as dexamethasone as part of severe COVID-19 management. Only one patient received anakinra. EM isolates were resistant to most available antibiotics and patients infected with it had poor treatment outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-96636992022-11-17 Elizabethkingia meningoseptica Infection in COVID-19 Patients Chaponda, Mas Shaukat, Adila Dulli, Mohammad Wajeh Sioufi, Stephanie Al Wali, Walid Cureus Internal Medicine Bacterial and fungal coinfections including the emergence of antimicrobial resistance are well-recognized in the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections. We present three cases of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (EM), superinfections in COVID-19 patients admitted between the period of April 2021 and May 2021. All cases were intubated; had central venous catheters, had received prior antibiotics and antivirals as well as dexamethasone as part of severe COVID-19 management. Only one patient received anakinra. EM isolates were resistant to most available antibiotics and patients infected with it had poor treatment outcomes. Cureus 2022-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9663699/ /pubmed/36407258 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30337 Text en Copyright © 2022, Chaponda et al. https://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.
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title_short Elizabethkingia meningoseptica Infection in COVID-19 Patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9663699/
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