Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit

Pneumococcal infection is still a frequent disease. It can be classified as invasive when pneumococcus is isolated in a generally sterile fluid. Pneumonia is the most common infectious source of adult invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), and several risk factors for IPD are well known. This case rep...

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Autores principales: Almeida, Manuel, Lavado, Pedro, Cunha, Lucie, Cordeiro, Isa, Baptista, Alexandre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36579230
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31876
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Sumario:Pneumococcal infection is still a frequent disease. It can be classified as invasive when pneumococcus is isolated in a generally sterile fluid. Pneumonia is the most common infectious source of adult invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), and several risk factors for IPD are well known. This case report presents three clinical cases of different manifestations of IPD. The two most severe cases had coinfection by SARS-CoV-2 at hospital admission.

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