Impact of COVID-19 and malaria coinfection on clinical outcomes: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite the possibility of concurrent infection with COVID-19 and malaria, little is known about the clinical course of coinfected patients. We analysed the clinical outcomes of patients with concurrent COVID-19 and malaria infection.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study that assessed prospectively collected data of all patients who were admitted between May and December 2020 to the Universal COVID-19 treatment center (UCTC), Khartoum, Sudan. UCTC compiled demographic, clinical, laboratory (including testing for malaria), and outcome data in all patients with confirmed COVID-19 hospitalized at that clinic. The primary outcome was all-cause mortality during the hospital stay. We built proportional hazard Cox models with malaria status as the main expos

SUBMITTER: Hussein R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8968160 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature