Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis in a Patient with COVID-19

Autor:	Irena Ivanova Gencheva-Angelova
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Meningoencephalitis Context (language use) medicine.disease Pneumonia Internal medicine Viral meningitis Coinfection Medicine Blood test Differential diagnosis business Meningitis
Zdroj:	Journal of Biosciences and Medicines. :110-115
ISSN:	2327-509X 2327-5081
Popis:	Against the background of a COVID-19 infection, the overlap of bacterial coinfection is associated with an increased risk of poor treatment outcomes. A 76-year-old man was treated for ischemic stroke in the period of one week. During his hospital stay, he showed symptoms of a viral infection, due to which a PCR sample was taken for SARS-CoV-2. The test result was positive. Meningoencephalitis is suspected on the basis of the clinical symptoms shown and the initial blood test. K. pneumonia was detected by a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) microbiological examination. The risk of bacterial coinfection with COVID-19 remains unclear. Timely and rapid diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis, in the context of a proven COVID-19 infection, require a variety of biological tests and a multidisciplinary approach. In the early stages of acute bacterial and viral meningitis, the signs and symptoms are often nonspecific and it is not always possible to make a differential diagnosis. Laboratory tests, characterizing COVID-19, should determine the type, prognosis, and outcome of a bacterial coinfection. Refining the laboratory diagnosis of a bacterial infection with COVID-19 is a new challenge for doctors.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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