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COVID-19's effects go beyond physical health, including impacts to behavioral health such as documented increases in loneliness, depression, anxiety, and alcohol misuse. Research on other disaster and mass trauma events suggests that behavioral health impacts may persist for many years after the initial onset of the event and could be compounded with other disasters. These impacts have not, and will not, be distributed evenly across the population. Of note, evidence from early in the pandemic suggests that older adults' (adults aged 65 and older) behavioral health may not be as adversely affected as expected, given past research on age and disasters. © 2023 The authors.
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Aerococcus viridans is a rare Gram positive microorganism identified largely as environmental or skin contaminants. With the advent of an increase in the immunosuppressed population due to diabetes, the use of steroids and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this bacteria caused a variety of infections like bacteraemia, urinary tract infections, and endocarditis. The use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation Time-of-Flight Mass-Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), a unique technique of microorganism identification, has placed Aerococci among human pathogens, capable of causing infection among immunocompromised patients. The present case was of a 48-year-old female presented with dry cough, high-grade fever associated with chills and rigors, and generalised body ache and weakness for the past one week. She was a known case of bronchial asthma. She tested positive for COVID-19 and over the course of hospital stay, her BACTEC blood culture performed due to high fever which flagged positive indicated her as a case of Aerococcus viridans bacteraemia. Despite of all the efforts she developed respiratory distress followed by an episode of asystole following which she could not be revived. Copyright © 2022 Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. All rights reserved.
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Ochrobactrum intermedium (O. intermedium) is a novel emerging gram negative bacillus infecting immunocompromised hosts. It is known for its multidrug resistance and to distinguish it from other species of Ochrobactrum genus by conventional methods, is often difficult. Here, authors report two unusual and interesting cases of bacterial infection due to O. intermedium in a 28-year-old female and 46-year-old male having Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. Rapid identification by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionisation-Time Of Flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry and patient's treatment guided by antibiotic sensitivity yielded in favourable outcome. Present report describes clinical and microbiological characteristics of this rare pathogen and also highlights the need of automated methods for proper identification of such opportunistic pathogens and their unique antibiotic susceptibility profiles.