Increased rates of secondary bacterial infections, including Enterococcus bacteremia, in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We compared the rates of hospital-onset secondary bacterial infections in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with rates in patients with influenza and controls, and we investigated reports of increased incidence of Enterococcus infections in patients with COVID-19.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

An academic quaternary-care hospital in San Francisco, California.

Patients

Patients admitted between October 1, 2019, and October 1, 2020, with a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR (N = 314) or influenza PCR (N = 82) within 2 weeks of admission were compared with inpatients without positive SARS-CoV-2 or influenza tests during the study period (N = 14,332).

Methods

National Healthcare Safety Network definitions were used to ident

SUBMITTER: DeVoe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8458844 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature