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Bacterial Pneumonia and Respiratory Culture Utilization among Hospitalized Patients with and without COVID-19 in New York City

2022-02-09 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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COVID-19 is associated with prolonged hospitalization and a high risk of intubation, which raises concern for bacterial co-infection and antimicrobial resistance. Previous research has shown a wide range of bacterial pneumonia rates for COVID-19 patients in a variety of clinical and demographic settings, but none have compared hospitalized COVID-19 patients to patients testing negative for SARS-CoV-2 in similar care settings. We performed a retrospective cohort study on hospitalized patients wit...

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