A Case of COVID 19 and Staphylococcus Coinfection

Seyedeh Sedigheh Hamzavi; Mohammad Amin Gholami; Anahita Sanaei Dashti

doi:10.34172/aim.2020.62

A Case of COVID 19 and Staphylococcus Coinfection

Arch Iran Med. 2020 Aug 1;23(8):568-569. doi: 10.34172/aim.2020.62.

Authors

Seyedeh Sedigheh Hamzavi^{1

2}, Mohammad Amin Gholami^{1

2}, Anahita Sanaei Dashti^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Professor Alborzi Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
² School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

PMID: 32894971
DOI: 10.34172/aim.2020.62

Abstract

Since December 2019, we have seen a significant number of cases of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCov), first identified in Wuhan China. Coronavirus might coexist with other infections such as Staphylococcus.

Keywords: COVID 19; Coinfection; Staphylococcus.

© 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coinfection / diagnosis*
Coinfection / therapy
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / therapy
Humans
Iran
Male
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy
SARS-CoV-2
Staphylococcal Infections / complications*
Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis*
Staphylococcal Infections / therapy