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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 11/2020

01-11-2020 | Aspergillosis | Understanding the Disease

Bacterial and fungal superinfections in critically ill patients with COVID-19

Authors: Matteo Bassetti, Marin H. Kollef, Jean-Francois Timsit

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 11/2020

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Are critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at high risk of bacterial and fungal superinfections developing on the top of the viral infection in the lung or in other body sites? And from which organisms? Answering these apparently simple questions could be far more difficult than expected, for at least three important reasons. …
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Metadata
Title
Bacterial and fungal superinfections in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Authors
Matteo Bassetti
Marin H. Kollef
Jean-Francois Timsit
Publication date
01-11-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 11/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06219-8

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