Co-infection with Influenza A and COVID-19

Venu Madhav Konala; Sreedhar Adapa; Vijay Gayam; Srikanth Naramala; Subba Rao Daggubati; Chetan Brahma Kammari; Avantika Chenna

doi:10.12890/2020_001656

Co-infection with Influenza A and COVID-19

Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2020 Apr 20;7(5):001656. doi: 10.12890/2020_001656. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Venu Madhav Konala¹, Sreedhar Adapa², Vijay Gayam³, Srikanth Naramala⁴, Subba Rao Daggubati⁵, Chetan Brahma Kammari⁶, Avantika Chenna⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Ashland Bellefonte Cancer Center, Ashland, KY, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Adventist Medical Center, Hanford, CA, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Adventist Medical Center, Hanford, CA, USA.
⁵ Wise Health System, Decatur, TX, USA.
⁶ Internal Medicine, Cape Fear Valley Hospital, Fayetteville, NC, USA.
⁷ Phobe Putney Memorial Hospital, Medical College of Georgia, Albany, GA, USA6.

Abstract

COVID-19, also called severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), originated in Wuhan, China. It has caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide and has been declared a global pandemic by the WHO. Influenza occurs mainly during the winter, with the burden of disease determined by several factors, including the effectiveness of the vaccine that season, the characteristics of the circulating viruses, and how long the season lasts. We describe the case of a 66-year-old woman who was diagnosed with influenza A and COVID-19 co-infection.

Learning points: COVID-19 can co-occur with other viral infections.Some of these co-infections have active treatments, while supportive treatment is the mainstay of treatment for others.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; acute respiratory distress syndrome; influenza.