Bacterial co-infection is a known major source of sickness and death in the context of other respiratory viral infections such as influenza, parainfluenza or RSV. However, it has been unclear regarding the frequency of bacteremic co-infection in COVID-19 and the impact it has on clinical outco...
When the logistic regression was performed, only bacterial superinfection was a predictor for mortality in hemodialysis COVID-19 patients (0.01 [0.00-0.26]). There was no difference in hospital stay nor in death rate between hemodialysis and non-dialysis COVID-19 patients. Despite these results, ...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, ISARIC adapted the ISARIC-WHO Clinical Characterization Protocol and data tools7to facilitate global research collaboration and accelerate the understanding of COVID-19 as part of the public health response to the pandemic1,8,9. Between January 2020 and...
One of the most perplexing questions regarding the current COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic is the discrepancy between the severity of cases observed in the Hubei province of China and those occurring elsewhere in the world. One possible answer is antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) of SARS-CoV-2 ...
Viruses aren't alive; they can only grow and reproduce inside of the host cells they infect. Bacteria are living organisms. Both viruses and bacteria can get you very sick, but most bacteria are harmless and many are helpful.
On December 12, 2019 a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, triggering a pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome in humans (COVID-19). Today, the scientific community is investing all the resources available to find any therapy and
People infected with COVID-19 can still be contagious even when they stop feeling sick, so precautionary measures should continue for at least 2 weeks after symptoms disappear and until the COVID-19 test result is negative. Ideally, patients should be qu
Also known as COVID-19 there is little known about Coronavirus and how to vaccinate people against it. As per now, the causative agent is Coronavirus with a majority of the patients experiencing moderate to mild respiratory illness. Such patients often r
To put the risk in context, COVID-19 also causes heart inflammation, often a more severe kind, said Emory University pediatric cardiologist Dr. Matthew Oster. It also sometimes occurs in children who get a multisystem inflammatory syndrome after a coronavirus infection. ...
Respiratory Bacterial and Fungal Superinfections During the Third Surge of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran Objective: We characterized bacterial and fungal superinfection and evaluated the antimicrobial resistance profile against the most common superinfection-c... MM Qamsari,L Sahebi,MR Salehi,... - ...