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Editor, Senior Moderator
Curr Opin Crit Care
. 2022 Aug 29.
doi: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000975. Online ahead of print.
Bacterial infection in coronavirus disease 2019 patients: co-infection, super-infection and how it impacts on antimicrobial use
Wagner Nedel[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Fernando da Silveira[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP], Cristofer Farias da Silva[SUP] 1 3 [/SUP], Thiago Lisboa[SUP] 1 3 4 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Purpose of review: Since the beginning of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic, there has been a large increase in the consumption of antimicrobials, both as a form of treatment for viral pneumonia, which has been shown to be ineffective, and in the treatment of secondary infections that arise over the course of the severe presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This increase in consumption, often empirical, ends up causing an increase in the incidence of colonization and secondary infections by multi and pan-resistant germs.
Recent findings: The presence of a hyperinflammatory condition induced by the primary infection, associated with the structural damage caused by viral pneumonia and by the greater colonization by bacteria, generally multiresistant, are important risk factors for the acquisition of secondary infections in COVID-19. Consequently, there is an increased prevalence of secondary infections, associated with a higher consumption of antimicrobials and a significant increase in the incidence of infections by multi and pan-resistant bacteria.
Summary: Antimicrobial stewardship and improvement in diagnostic techniques, improving the accuracy of bacterial infection diagnosis, may impact the antibiotic consumption and the incidence of infections by resistant pathogens.
. 2022 Aug 29.
doi: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000975. Online ahead of print.
Bacterial infection in coronavirus disease 2019 patients: co-infection, super-infection and how it impacts on antimicrobial use
Wagner Nedel[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Fernando da Silveira[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP], Cristofer Farias da Silva[SUP] 1 3 [/SUP], Thiago Lisboa[SUP] 1 3 4 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 36017559
- DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000975
Abstract
Purpose of review: Since the beginning of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic, there has been a large increase in the consumption of antimicrobials, both as a form of treatment for viral pneumonia, which has been shown to be ineffective, and in the treatment of secondary infections that arise over the course of the severe presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This increase in consumption, often empirical, ends up causing an increase in the incidence of colonization and secondary infections by multi and pan-resistant germs.
Recent findings: The presence of a hyperinflammatory condition induced by the primary infection, associated with the structural damage caused by viral pneumonia and by the greater colonization by bacteria, generally multiresistant, are important risk factors for the acquisition of secondary infections in COVID-19. Consequently, there is an increased prevalence of secondary infections, associated with a higher consumption of antimicrobials and a significant increase in the incidence of infections by multi and pan-resistant bacteria.
Summary: Antimicrobial stewardship and improvement in diagnostic techniques, improving the accuracy of bacterial infection diagnosis, may impact the antibiotic consumption and the incidence of infections by resistant pathogens.