First COVID-19 mortality case in Taiwan with bacterial co-infection by national surveillance of critically ill patients with influenza-negative pneumonia
oleh: Wei-Cheng Chen, Yi-Chyi Lai, Chieh-Hui Lin, Jin-Fu Zheng, Wen-Chung Hung, Yi-Jen Wang, Tsung-Huai Kuo, Li-Hung Wu, Yao-Shen Tong, Min-Chi Lu, Keh-Sen Liu
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Elsevier 2020-08-01 |
Deskripsi
A 63-year-old diabetic smoker with alcoholism was the first mortality case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. As concurrently infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae and subsequently with Klebsiella aerogenes, he was exposed by a national survey of patients with critically influenza-negative pneumonia. We recommend COVID-19 screening for patients with severe flu-like syndrome and protecting health-care workers from being infected.