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
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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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author Almeida, Manuel
Lavado, Pedro
Cunha, Lucie
Cordeiro, Isa
Baptista, Alexandre
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Cunha, Lucie
Cordeiro, Isa
Baptista, Alexandre
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description 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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spelling pubmed-97900832022-12-27 Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit Almeida, Manuel Lavado, Pedro Cunha, Lucie Cordeiro, Isa Baptista, Alexandre Cureus Internal Medicine 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. Cureus 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9790083/ /pubmed/36579230 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31876 Text en Copyright © 2022, Almeida 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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Almeida, Manuel
Lavado, Pedro
Cunha, Lucie
Cordeiro, Isa
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Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
title Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
title_full Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
title_fullStr Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
title_full_unstemmed Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
title_short Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and COVID-19 Coinfection: A Series of Cases Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
title_sort invasive pneumococcal disease and covid-19 coinfection: a series of cases admitted to an intensive care unit
topic Internal Medicine
url 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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