The Evolving Challenge of Appropriate Antibiotics Use in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Literature Review

G Granata, S Cicalini - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The issue of bacterial infections in COVID-19 patients has received increasing attention.
Scant data are available on the impact of bacterial superinfection and antibiotic …

Pulmonary superinfection diagnosed with bronchoalveolar lavage at intubation in COVID patients: A Swedish single‐centre study

F Hammarskjöld, S Berg, H Bavelaar… - Acta …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) pneumonia and acute
respiratory distress syndrome (C‐ARDS) on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) have …

[HTML][HTML] Early empiric antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients: results from the international VIRUS registry

U Sili, A Tekin, H Bilgin, SA Khan, JP Domecq… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives COVID-19 escalated inappropriate antibiotic use. We determined the distribution
of pathogens causing community-acquired co-infections, the rate, and factors associated …

Outcomes of wuhan, alpha, delta, omicron and other variants in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2

O Bayrakçı - 2023 - nopr.niscpr.res.in
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 whose mutation has been a
cause of concern in the fight against this pandemic. Here, we analysed the clinical outcomes …

Empiric Antibiotics in COVID-19 Patients: To Give or Not to Give

RH Rimawi, AK Almuti - Critical Care Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
It is difficult to distinguish sepsis caused by a bacterial infection from that of a viral infection.
This has raised a particular interest regarding antibiotic prescription in COVID-19 patients …