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ArticleInternational journal of microbiology2022

The Prevalence of Bacterial and Fungal Coinfections among Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients in the ICU in Jordan.

Ayman Daifallah Alsheikh, Mohamed Abdelsalam Abdalla, Mai Abdullah, Hanan Hasan

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Article in International journal of microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ayman Daifallah AlsheikhDepartment of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1151-1178
Mohamed Abdelsalam AbdallaDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9803-7845
Mai AbdullahDepartment of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3185-3204
Hanan HasanDepartment of Pathology, Microbiology and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6875-2458
University of Jordan · JOSudan University of Science and Technology · SDZarqa University · JO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Secondary bacterial and fungal coinfections have been reported among critically ill coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) patients and are associated with increased disease severity and mortality incidence (MI) rates. Aims: This study aimed to track bacterial and fungal coinfections among COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and to assess the impact of these infections on disease prognosis and patient outcomes in Jordan. Materials and Methods: This was a single-center study that enrolled 46 ICU patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Microbiological and antimicrobial susceptibility results and inflammatory biomarker data were retrospectively analyzed. Results: The MI rate attributed to bacterial and fungal coinfections was 84.8%, and the highest rate was reported among patients older than 70 years (66.7%). The MI rate related to bacterial coinfections was 95.2%, whereas that of fungal coinfections was 4.8%. The most commonly isolated bacterium in the blood was a coagulase-negative staphylococcus (41%), followed by Conclusion: COVID-19 MI is associated with respiratory bacterial/fungal coinfections. The ability to predict bacterial and fungal coinfections in ICU patients may be crucial to their survival and prognosis.

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