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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2023 Jul;29(7):1433-1437.
doi: 10.3201/eid2907.221771.
Increased Hospitalizations Involving Fungal Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, January 2020-December 2021
Jeremy A W Gold, Stacey Adjei, Adi V Gundlapalli, Ya-Lin A Huang, Tom Chiller, Kaitlin Benedict, Mitsuru Toda
Hospitalizations involving fungal infections increased 8.5% each year in the United States during 2019-2021. During 2020-2021, patients hospitalized with COVID-19-associated fungal infections had higher (48.5%) in-hospital mortality rates than those with non-COVID-19-associated fungal infections (12.3%). Improved fungal disease surveillance is needed, particularly during respiratory virus pandemics.
Keywords: COVID-19; Pneumocystis; SARS; SARS-CoV-2; United States; aspergillosis; blastomycosis; candidiasis; coccidioidomycosis; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; cryptococcosis; fungi; histoplasmosis; hospitalizations; international classification of diseases; invasive fungal infections; mucormycosis; mycoses; pneumonia; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2023 Jul;29(7):1433-1437.
doi: 10.3201/eid2907.221771.
Increased Hospitalizations Involving Fungal Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, January 2020-December 2021
Jeremy A W Gold, Stacey Adjei, Adi V Gundlapalli, Ya-Lin A Huang, Tom Chiller, Kaitlin Benedict, Mitsuru Toda
- PMID: 37347805
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2907.221771
Hospitalizations involving fungal infections increased 8.5% each year in the United States during 2019-2021. During 2020-2021, patients hospitalized with COVID-19-associated fungal infections had higher (48.5%) in-hospital mortality rates than those with non-COVID-19-associated fungal infections (12.3%). Improved fungal disease surveillance is needed, particularly during respiratory virus pandemics.
Keywords: COVID-19; Pneumocystis; SARS; SARS-CoV-2; United States; aspergillosis; blastomycosis; candidiasis; coccidioidomycosis; coronavirus; coronavirus disease; cryptococcosis; fungi; histoplasmosis; hospitalizations; international classification of diseases; invasive fungal infections; mucormycosis; mycoses; pneumonia; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.