Are we now observing an increasing number of coinfections between SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens?

Jorge A Sánchez-Duque^{1

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3}, Juan Pablo Orozco-Hernández³, Daniel S Marín-Medina^{3

4}, Aleksandar Cvetkovic-Vega^{2

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6}, Telmo Raul Aveiro-Róbalo^{2

7}, Alvaro Mondragon-Cardona^{2

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10}, Virgilio E Failoc-Rojas^{2

11}, Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo¹, Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña¹, Juan F Henao-Martínez³, Kovy Arteaga-Livias^{2

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12}, Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
² Young Core Group, Latin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Research (LANCOVID-19), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
³ Grupo de Investigación Epidemiología, Salud y Violencia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁴ Grupo de Investigación NeuroUnal, Neurology Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
⁵ Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁶ Coordination of Research, Universidad Continental, Lima, Peru.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad del Pacífico, Asunción, Paraguay.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Navarra, Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
⁹ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
¹⁰ Internal Medicine Department and Intensive Care Unit, Clinica EMCOSALUD - Clinica Uros, Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
¹¹ Unidad de Investigación para la Generación y Sintesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru.
¹² Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru.
¹³ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

Comment

Jorge A Sánchez-Duque et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;92(11):2398-2400.

doi: 10.1002/jmv.26089. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

¹ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
² Young Core Group, Latin American Network of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Research (LANCOVID-19), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
³ Grupo de Investigación Epidemiología, Salud y Violencia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁴ Grupo de Investigación NeuroUnal, Neurology Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
⁵ Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁶ Coordination of Research, Universidad Continental, Lima, Peru.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad del Pacífico, Asunción, Paraguay.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Navarra, Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
⁹ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
¹⁰ Internal Medicine Department and Intensive Care Unit, Clinica EMCOSALUD - Clinica Uros, Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
¹¹ Unidad de Investigación para la Generación y Sintesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru.
¹² Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huánuco, Peru.
¹³ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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