Pulmonary Co-Infections Detected Premortem Underestimate Postmortem Findings in a COVID-19 Autopsy Case Series

Bacterial and fungal co-infections are reported complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in critically ill patients but may go unrecognized premortem due to diagnostic limitations. We compared the premortem with the postmortem detection of pulmonary co-infections in 55 fatal COVID-19 cas...

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Published in:	Pathogens
Main Authors:	Andrew P. Platt, Benjamin T. Bradley, Nadia Nasir, Sydney R. Stein, Sabrina C. Ramelli, Marcos J. Ramos-Benitez, James M. Dickey, Madeleine Purcell, Shreya Singireddy, Nicole Hays, Jocelyn Wu, Katherine Raja, Ryan Curto, Stephen J. Salipante, Claire Chisholm, Stephanie Carnes, Desiree A. Marshall, Brad T. Cookson, Kevin M. Vannella, Ronson J. Madathil, Shahabuddin Soherwardi, Michael T. McCurdy, Kapil K. Saharia, Joseph Rabin, NIH COVID-19 Autopsy Consortium, Alison Grazioli, David E. Kleiner, Stephen M. Hewitt, Joshua A. Lieberman, Daniel S. Chertow
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Subjects:	COVID-19 pneumonia co-infection invasive fungal infections autopsy nosocomial infections
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/12/7/932