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Editor, Senior Moderator
EMBO Mol Med
. 2020 May 26.
doi: 10.15252/emmm.202012560. Online ahead of print.
SARS-CoV-2, Bacterial Co-Infections, and AMR: The Deadly Trio in COVID-19?
Jose A Bengoechea[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Connor G G Bamford[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
At the end of December 2019, Chinese public health authorities reported a cluster of pneumonia of unknown cause in central city of Wuhan in Hubei province. Shortly after, Chinese scientists identified a hitherto undescribed beta-coronavirus as the likely causative agent. The disease is now referred to as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since 31 December 2019 and as of 25 May 2020, 5,432,512 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported globally, including 345,467 deaths.
Keywords: AMR; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; bacterial co-infections; bacterial super-infections.
. 2020 May 26.
doi: 10.15252/emmm.202012560. Online ahead of print.
SARS-CoV-2, Bacterial Co-Infections, and AMR: The Deadly Trio in COVID-19?
Jose A Bengoechea[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Connor G G Bamford[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32453917
- DOI: 10.15252/emmm.202012560
Abstract
At the end of December 2019, Chinese public health authorities reported a cluster of pneumonia of unknown cause in central city of Wuhan in Hubei province. Shortly after, Chinese scientists identified a hitherto undescribed beta-coronavirus as the likely causative agent. The disease is now referred to as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since 31 December 2019 and as of 25 May 2020, 5,432,512 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported globally, including 345,467 deaths.
Keywords: AMR; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; bacterial co-infections; bacterial super-infections.