{"id":7175,"date":"2021-03-19T17:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T00:52:59","slug":"bacterial-superinfections-among-persons-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-a-comprehensive-review-of-data-from-postmortem-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/bacterial-superinfections-among-persons-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-a-comprehensive-review-of-data-from-postmortem-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacterial Superinfections Among Persons With Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Comprehensive Review of Data From Postmortem Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Potential bacterial lung superinfections were found post-mortem in 32% of persons who died of COVID-19, with proven super-infection occurring in 8% of persons who died of COVID-19, based on a review of 75 published postmortem studies including post-mortem findings from 621 COVID-19 patients. Histopathologic findings in patients with potential lung infections demonstrated diffuse pneumonia was the most frequent manifestation observed (95%). Proven superinfection (direct tissue visualization, microbiologic cultures and\/or postmortem PCR) were identified in 8% of patients. Lung superinfections were the cause of death of 16% of patients with potential bacterial infections for whom a cause of death was assigned. The most commonly attributed cause of death was respiratory failure due to COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clancy et al.\u00a0(Mar 2021). Bacterial Superinfections Among Persons With Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Comprehensive Review of Data From Postmortem Studies. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofab065\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofab065<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential bacterial lung superinfections were found post-mortem in 32% of persons who died of COVID-19, with proven super-infection occurring in 8% of persons who died of COVID-19, based on a review of 75 published postmortem studies including post-mortem findings from 621 COVID-19 patients. Histopathologic findings in patients with potential lung infections demonstrated diffuse pneumonia was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/bacterial-superinfections-among-persons-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-a-comprehensive-review-of-data-from-postmortem-studies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,188],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-other-infections","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}