Fungal, parasitological, and bacterial coinfection in a severely ill COVID-19 patient in Peru

Jeel Moya-Salazar; Sharon S Sauñe; Roxana Valer; Richard Salazar-Hernandez; Wilfredo Loza; Evelyn Suxe; Karina Chicoma-Flores; Hans Contreras-Pulache

doi:10.1002/ccr3.5395

Fungal, parasitological, and bacterial coinfection in a severely ill COVID-19 patient in Peru

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb 18;10(2):e05395. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5395. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Jeel Moya-Salazar^{1

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3}, Sharon S Sauñe⁴, Roxana Valer⁴, Richard Salazar-Hernandez⁵, Wilfredo Loza⁴, Evelyn Suxe⁴, Karina Chicoma-Flores³, Hans Contreras-Pulache²

Affiliations

¹ Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolomé Lima Peru.
² South America Center for Education and Research in Public Health Universidad Norbert Wiener Lima Peru.
³ Infectious Unit Nesh Hubbs Lima Peru.
⁴ Department of Pathology Hospital Carlos Lanfranco La Hoz Lima Peru.
⁵ Department of Pathology Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen Lima Peru.

Abstract

COVID-19 patients are prone to coinfections during their hospitalization. These coinfections are challenging as they involve longer hospital stays, high costs, and higher risk of mortality. Here, we present a case of a patient with multi-infection by resistant parasites, fungi, and bacteria during his hospitalization in a hospital in Lima, Peru.

Keywords: COVID‐19; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Lophomonas; SARS‐CoV‐2; cross infection; infectious diseases.

Publication types

Case Reports