Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacterial Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 Using a Multiplex PCR Assay: A Large Italian Hospital’s Five-Month Experience

Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacterial Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 Using a Multiplex PCR Assay: A Large Italian Hospital’s Five-Month Experience

ABSTRACT Bacterial pneumonia is a challenging coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) complication for intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians. Upon its implementation, the FilmArray pneumonia plus (FA-PP) panel’s practicability for both the diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy management of bacterial pneum...

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Main Authors: Brunella Posteraro, Venere Cortazzo, Flora Marzia Liotti, Giulia Menchinelli, Chiara Ippoliti, Giulia De Angelis, Marilena La Sorda, Gennaro Capalbo, Joel Vargas, Massimo Antonelli, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Gennaro De Pascale, Teresa Spanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
bacterial pneumonia
COVID-19
diagnosis
FilmArray panel
treatment
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00695-21

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