Secondary infections in critically ill patients with COVID-19

Giacomo Grasselli; Emanuele Cattaneo; Gaetano Florio

doi:10.1186/s13054-021-03672-9

Secondary infections in critically ill patients with COVID-19

Crit Care. 2021 Aug 31;25(1):317. doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03672-9.

Authors

Giacomo Grasselli^{1

2}, Emanuele Cattaneo^{3

4}, Gaetano Florio^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. giacomo.grasselli@unimi.it.
² Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. giacomo.grasselli@unimi.it.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2021 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from https://link.springer.com/bookseries/8901 .

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use
Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Bacterial Infections / etiology*
COVID-19 / complications*
Critical Illness
Humans
Mycoses / drug therapy
Mycoses / etiology*

Substances

Anti-Infective Agents