Hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in patients deceased with COVID-19 in Italy (2020–2021)

IntroductionIn hospitalized patients with COVID-19, bloodstream infections (BSI) are associated with high mortality and high antibiotic resistance rates. The aim of this study was to describe BSI etiology, antimicrobial resistance profile and risk factors in a sample of patients deceased with COVID-...

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Main Authors: Monica Monaco, Marco Floridia, Marina Giuliano, Luigi Palmieri, Cinzia Lo Noce, Annalisa Pantosti, Anna Teresa Palamara, Silvio Brusaferro, Graziano Onder, The Italian National Institute of Health COVID-19 Mortality Group, Elvira Agazio, Pierfrancesco Barbariol, Antonino Bella, Eva Benelli, Luigi Bertinato, Matilde Bocci, Stefano Boros, Marco Bressi, Giovanni Calcagnini, Federica Censi, Alessandra Ciervo, Elisa Colaizzo, Cecilia Damiano, Martina Del Manso, Corrado Di Benedetto, Chiara Donfrancesco, Massimo Fabiani, Francesco Facchiano, Fabio Galati, Tiziana Grisetti, Cecilia Guastadisegni, Pietro Maiozzi, Valerio Manno, Margherita Martini, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Eugenio Mattei, Claudia Meduri, Paola Meli, Giada Minelli, Daniele Petrone, Patrizio Pezzotti, Flavia Pricci, Ornella Punzo, Flavia Riccardo, Chiara Sacco, Paolo Salerno, Debora Serra, Matteo Spuri, Marco Tallon, Manuela Tamburo De Bella, Dorina Tiple, Brigid Unim, Luana Vaianella, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Liliana Elena Weimer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2022.1041668/full