Background Frequent use of antibiotics in patients with COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate
antimicrobial resistance. We aimed to establish the prevalence and predictors of bacterial …

Abstracts Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged as a pandemic that spread
rapidly around the world, causing nearly 500 billion infections and more than 6 million …

Background Evidence around prevalence of bacterial coinfection and pattern of antibiotic
use in COVID-19 is controversial although high prevalence rates of bacterial coinfection …

Background: Although coinfection with influenza in COVID-19 patients has drawn
considerable attention, it is still not completely understood whether simultaneously infected …

Synthase-dependent secretion systems are a conserved mechanism for producing
exopolysaccharides in Gram-negative bacteria. Although widely studied, it is not well …

Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the 29
causative pathogen of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has resulted in over 650 30 …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have recently developed beyond the
research realm and started to mature into clinical applications. Here, we review the current …

Background: Little is known about the occurrence of bloodstream infections in hospitalized
patients with COVID-19 and the related clinical consequences. The aim of this systematic …

Infections lacking precise diagnosis are often caused by a rare or uncharacterized
pathogen, a combination of pathogens, or a known pathogen carrying undocumented or …

Clinical value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in pneumonia
management is still controversial. A prospective study was conducted to evaluate the clinical …