Risk Factors and Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients With Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Secondary Bloodstream Infections: A Multicenter Case-Control Study.
Pinki J BhattStephanie ShiauLuigi BrunettiYingda XieKinjal SolankiShaza KhalidSana MohayyaPak Ho AuChristopher PhamPriyanka UpretyRonald NahassNavaneeth NarayananPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
We observed that hospitalized adult patients with severe COVID-19 and sBSI had a more severe initial presentation, prolonged hospital course, and worse clinical outcomes. To maintain antimicrobial stewardship principles, further prospective studies are necessary to better characterize risk factors and prediction modeling to better understand when to suspect and empirically treat for sBSIs in severe COVID-19.