Hospital Acquired Infections in COVID-19 patients in sub intensive care unit

Acta Biomed. 2020 Sep 7;91(3):e2020017. doi: 10.23750/abm.v91i3.10376.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to assess the association among species of bacteria and to identify the presence of clusters of patients in sub intensive care unit with different profiles of infection, and to study the relationship between such profiles and patient demographics (gender, age), kind of investigations and material used to detect the infection. The findings need to analyse a bigger amount of data in the same setting to make evident that it is constant the infection only with Escherichia coli and Staphylocossus epidemidis and a third case in which more bacteria are inlvolved.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Betacoronavirus*
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Cross Infection / drug therapy
  • Cross Infection / epidemiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units / statistics & numerical data*
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pandemics*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • SARS-CoV-2

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents