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Case Reports
. 2020 Sep 18;8(3):544.
doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030544.

Pneumocystis jirevocii and SARS-CoV-2 Co-Infection: A Common Feature in Transplant Recipients?

Maria A De Francesco  1 , Federico Alberici  2   3 , Nicola Bossini  3 , Francesco Scolari  2   3 , Federico Pascucci  4 , Gabriele Tomasoni  4 , Arnaldo Caruso  1
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Pneumocystis jirevocii and SARS-CoV-2 Co-Infection: A Common Feature in Transplant Recipients?

Maria A De Francesco et al. Vaccines (Basel). .

Abstract

COVID-19 might potentially give rise to a more severe infection in solid organ transplant recipients due to their chronic immunosuppression. These patients are at a higher risk of developing concurrent or secondary bacterial and fungal infections. Co-infections can increase systemic inflammation influencing the prognosis and the severity of the disease, and can in turn lead to an increased need of mechanical ventilation, antibiotic therapy and to a higher mortality. Here we describe, for the first time in Europe, a fatal case of co-infection between SARS-CoV-2 and Pneumocystis jirevocii in a kidney transplant recipient.

Keywords: COVID-19; immunosuppression; pneumonia.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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