Worldwide prevalence of microbial agents' coinfection among COVID-19 patients: A comprehensive updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To provide information about pathogens' coinfection prevalence with SARS-CoV-2 could be a real help to save patients' lives. This study aims to evaluate the pathogens' coinfection prevalence among COVID-19 patients.

Method

In order to find all of the relevant articles, we used systematic search approach. Research-based databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Scopus, without language restrictions, were searched to identify the relevant bacterial, fungal, and viral coinfections among COVID-19 cases from December 1, 2019, to August 23, 2021. In order to dig deeper, other scientific repositories such as Medrxiv were probed.

Results

A total of 13,023 studies were found through systematic search. After thorough analysis, only 64 studies with 61,54

SUBMITTER: Pakzad R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8761407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature