First COVID-19 mortality case in Taiwan with bacterial co-infection by national surveillance of critically ill patients with influenza-negative pneumonia | Zendy

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First COVID-19 mortality case in Taiwan with bacterial co-infection by national surveillance of critically ill patients with influenza-negative pneumonia

Author(s) -

Wei-Cheng Chen,

YiChyi Lai,

Chieh-Hui Lin,

Jin-Fu Zheng,

Wen-Chung Hung,

Yi-Jen Wang,

Tsung-Huai Kuo,

Li-Hung Wu,

Yao-Shen Tong,

MinChi Lu,

Keh-Sen Liu

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of microbiology immunology and infection

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223

H-Index - 57

eISSN - 1995-9133

pISSN - 1684-1182

DOI - 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.05.005

Subject(s) - pneumonia , medicine , klebsiella pneumoniae , critically ill , covid-19 , intensive care medicine , atypical pneumonia , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , biochemistry , escherichia coli , gene

A 63-year-old diabetic smoker with alcoholism was the first mortality case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. As concurrently infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae and subsequently with Klebsiella aerogenes, he was exposed by a national survey of patients with critically influenza-negative pneumonia. We recommend COVID-19 screening for patients with severe flu-like syndrome and protecting health-care workers from being infected.

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