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ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Yeast Bloodstream Infections in the COVID-19 Patient: A Multicenter Italian Study (FiCoV Study).

Anna Prigitano, Elisabetta Blasi, Maria Calabrò, Caterina Cavanna, Maria Cornetta, Claudio Farina, Anna Grancini, Patrizia Innocenti, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Lucia Nicola and 6 more

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 11 institutions in 1 country.

Anna PrigitanoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8221-7542
Elisabetta BlasiLaboratory of Microbiology, AOU-Policlinic/CHIMOMO, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41121 Modena, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4202-8293
Maria CalabròClinical Microbiology and Virology Laboratory, Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.
Caterina CavannaMicrobiology and Virology Department, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Maria CornettaOperative Unit 1-Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy.
Claudio FarinaMicrobiology and Virology Laboratory, ASST "Papa Giovanni XXIII", 24100 Bergamo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2298-4293
Anna GranciniU.O.S. Microbiology-Analysis Laboratory, IRCCS Foundation, Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.
Patrizia InnocentiLaboratorio Aziendale di Microbiologia e Virologia di Bolzano, Comprensorio Sanitario di Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.
Giuliana Lo CascioDipartimento di Patologia Clinica-Unità Operativa di Microbiologia e Virologia-AUSL Piacenza, 29121 Piacenza, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3971-2008
Lucia NicolaASST Melegnano e Martesana, Laboratorio Microbiologia PO Cernusco s/N, 20063 Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy.
Laura TrovatoU.O.C. Laboratory Analysis Unit, A.O.U. "Policlinico-San Marco", 95125 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0372-8545
Massimo CogliatiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Maria Carmela EspostoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6614-2461
Anna Maria TortoranoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Luisa RomanòDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
On Behalf Of The FiCoV Study Group
University of Milan · ITASST Melegnano e della Martesana · ITAzienda Unità Sanitaria Locale Piacenza · ITFondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · ITIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital · ITIRCCS Policlinico San Donato · ITOspedale di Bolzano · ITOspedale Papa Giovanni XXIII · ITPoliclinico San Matteo Fondazione · ITUniversity of Catania · ITUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia · IT

Funding

University of Milan Finanziamento di Ateneo, bando COVID-19
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungemia is a co-infection contributing to the worsening of the critically ill COVID-19 patient. The multicenter Italian observational study FiCoV aims to estimate the frequency of yeast bloodstream infections (BSIs), to describe the factors associated with yeast BSIs in COVID-19 patients hospitalized in 10 hospitals, and to analyze the antifungal susceptibility profiles of the yeasts isolated from blood cultures. The study included all hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients with a yeast BSI; anonymous data was collected from each patient and data about antifungal susceptibility was collected. Yeast BSI occurred in 1.06% of patients, from 0.14% to 3.39% among the 10 participating centers. Patients were mainly admitted to intensive or sub-intensive care units (68.6%), over 60 years of age (73%), with a mean and median time from the hospitalization to fungemia of 29 and 22 days, respectively. Regarding risk factors for fungemia, most patients received corticosteroid therapy during hospitalization (61.8%) and had a comorbidity (25.3% diabetes, 11.5% chronic respiratory disorder, 9.5% cancer, 6% haematological malignancies, 1.4% organ transplantation). Antifungal therapy was administered to 75.6% of patients, mostly echinocandins (64.5%). The fatality rate observed in COVID-19 patients with yeast BSI was significantly higher than that of COVID-19 patients without yeast BSI (45.5% versus 30.5%).

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antifungal resistancecandidemiaCOVID-19fungemiainvasive fungal infections

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