A Double Whammy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on Pneumococcal Coinfection in COVID-19 Patients
Open Access
- 13 February 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cureus
- Vol. 13 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13322
Abstract
Bacterial coinfections which are infections present early in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections before hospitalizations during the 2020 pandemic are rare. A 66-year-old male presented to the ED with a two-week history of subjective fever, dyspnea, and productive cough. He was diagnosed with coinfection of severe COVID-19 pneumonia and pneumococcal infection. He recovered from both infections and was discharged home. This report presents the features of this case and reviews the literature of similar cases of coinfection of COVID-19 pneumonia and pneumococcal infection.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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