Bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients before and during the COVID-19 surge in a community hospital in the South Bronx

Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Mar:116:43-46. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.349. Epub 2021 Dec 25.

Authors

Afsheen Afzal¹, Victor Perez Gutierrez¹, Edgar Gomez¹, Aye Myat Mon¹, Carolina Moreira Sarmiento¹, Amna Khalid¹, Svetlana Polishchuk¹, Mohannad Al-Khateeb¹, Boyana Yankulova¹, Mubarak Yusuf¹, Yinelka Silverio de Castro¹, Anjana Pillai¹, Usha Venugopal¹, Addi Feinstein¹, Alexander LaFortune¹, Daniel Sittler¹, Karen Hennessy¹, Vidya Menon²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, New York Health + Hospital/Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
² Department of Medicine, New York Health + Hospital/Lincoln Medical Center, Bronx, New York. Electronic address: [email protected].

No abstract available

Keywords: BSI; Bacteremia; Bloodstream infections; COVID-19; Enterococcus.

MeSH terms

Bacteremia* / epidemiology
COVID-19*
Cross Infection* / epidemiology
Hospitals, Community*
Humans
New York City
Retrospective Studies