The prevalence of pulmonary aspergillosis in coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients in Shebin El-Kom teaching hospital in Egypt

Autor: Elham T Awad, Mariam A Fouad, Asmaa M Soliman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 113-120 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2537-091X
2537-0928
DOI: 10.4103/jmisr.jmisr_90_21
Popis: Background A high rate of invasive fungal infection has been demonstrated among critically COVID-19 ill patients admitted to the ICU, with high odds of mortality. Simple and rapid risk stratification methods are mandatory to recognize severe patients. Objectives The aims was to study the prevalence of invasive fungal infection in Corona virus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients, the effect of some inflammatory markers that lead to the development and progression of invasive fungal infection and to assess the value of PCR in early and rapid detection of invasive fungal infection in immune compromised patients with COVID-19. Methods This study was conducted at the period from October 2020 to October 2021 on two groups classified as following: Group I: included 120 immuno-compromised inpatients (2-80 years), (68 males and 52 females) from ICUs. Group II: included 40 outpatient's COVID-19 (4 – 56 years). All basic laboratory biomarkers at time of admission were recorded. Results Of this study showeda highly significant increase in neutrophil/ lymph, IL6,CRP, D-dimer and malondialdhyde (MDA) in COVID-19 patients in ICU compared with outpatient one with P value < 0.001). No significant difference between them in LDH, ferritin and procalcitonine. The most common isolated organisms (167 isolates) from group I (230 samples from 120 patients) were bacterial spp. (111/167, 66.5%)followed by Candida spp. (30, 17.9%), Aspergillus spp. (11, 6.6%) while mucormycosis was 5 isolates (3%) and associated bacterial infection represented 5.9%of all. Out of 120 patients suspected of complaining of BSI 17 (14.1%) of them proved to be fungemia. The most common isolated yeast was Candida spp. (11/120, 9.1%) followed by Aspergillus spp. (6/120, 5%). While out of 20 patients (group I) suspected of complaining of eye infections, mucormycosis was represented by 5/20 (25%). Fungaemia was detected by PCR and blood culture in 50 high risk ICU patients was 22/50 (44%) and 17/50 (34%) respectively. PCR is more sensitive than blood culture, as blood culture failed to detect 5 cases of fungemia with a significant difference (P-value
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