作者
Sari T Alhoufie, Nadir A Ibrahim, Naif H Alsharif, Khalid O Alfarouk, Hatim M Makhdoom, Khaled R Aljabri, Sayed H Saeed, Adnan A Khoumaeys, Yahya A Almutawif, Mustafa A Najim, Hamza M Ali, Alanoud A Aljifri, Ali M Kheyami, Areej A Alhazmi
发表日期
2022/9
期刊
Saudi Medical Journal
卷号
43
期号
9
页码范围
1000
出版商
Saudi Medical Journal
简介
Objectives:
To investigate the seroprevalence of the community-acquired bacterial that causes atypical pneumonia among confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) patients.
Methods:
In this cohort study, we retrospectively investigated the seroprevalence of Chlamydia pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila among randomly selected 189 confirmed COVID-19 patients at their time of hospital presentation via commercial immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies against these bacteria. We also carried out quantitative measurements of procalcitonin in patients’ serum.
Results:
The seropositivity for L. pneumophila was 12.6%, with significant distribution among patientsolder than 50 years (χ2 test, p= 0.009), while those of M. pneumoniae was 6.3% and C. pneumoniae was 2.1%, indicating an overall co-infection rate of 21% among COVID-19 patients. No …
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