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Severe Pneumonia Caused by Corynebacterium striatum in Adults, Seoul, South Korea, 2014–2019

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العنوان: Severe Pneumonia Caused by Corynebacterium striatum in Adults, Seoul, South Korea, 2014–2019
المؤلفون: Yun Woo Lee, Jin Won Huh, Sang-Bum Hong, Jiwon Jung, Min Jae Kim, Yong Pil Chong, Sung-Han Kim, Heungsup Sung, Kyung-Hyun Do, Sang-Oh Lee, Chae-Man Lim, Yang Soo Kim, Younsuck Koh, Sang-Ho Choi
المصدر: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 28, Iss 11, Pp 2147-2154 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases
مصطلحات موضوعية: pneumonia, bacteria, respiratory infections, Corynebacterium striatum, intensive care units, incidence, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
الوصف: We investigated the proportion and characteristics of severe Corynebacterium striatum pneumonia in South Korea during 2014–2019. As part of an ongoing observational study of severe pneumonia among adult patients, we identified 27 severe C. striatum pneumonia cases. Most (70.4%) cases were hospital-acquired, and 51.9% of patients were immunocompromised. C. striatum cases among patients with severe hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) increased from 1.0% (2/200) during 2014–2015 to 5.4% (10/185) during 2018–2019, but methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections among severe HAP cases decreased from 12.0% to 2.7% during the same timeframe. During 2018–2019, C. striatum was responsible for 13.3% of severe HAP cases from which bacterial pathogens were identified. The 90-day mortality rates were similarly high in the C. striatum and MRSA groups. C. striatum was a major cause of severe HAP and had high mortality rates. This pathogen is emerging as a possible cause for severe pneumonia, especially among immunocompromised patients.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1080-6040
1080-6059
95689257
Relation: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/11/22-0273_article; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6040; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid2811.220273
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/f266f75e5bd6487492b3cbea95689257
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.f266f75e5bd6487492b3cbea95689257
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:10806040
10806059
95689257
DOI:10.3201/eid2811.220273