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Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
; 1(1): e13, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1860175
ABSTRACT
In 829 hospital encounters for patients with COVID-19, 73.2% included orders for antibiotics; however, only 1.8% had respiratory cultures during the first 3 hospital days isolating bacteria. Case-control analysis of 30 patients and 96 controls found that each antibiotic day increased the risk of isolating multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) in respiratory cultures by 6.5%.