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

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

Afsheen Afzal  1 , Victor Perez Gutierrez  1 , Edgar Gomez  1 , Aye Myat Mon  1 , Carolina Moreira Sarmiento  1 , Amna Khalid  1 , Svetlana Polishchuk  1 , Mohannad Al-Khateeb  1 , Boyana Yankulova  1 , Mubarak Yusuf  1 , Yinelka Silverio de Castro  1 , Anjana Pillai  1 , Usha Venugopal  1 , Addi Feinstein  1 , Alexander LaFortune  1 , Daniel Sittler  1 , Karen Hennessy  1 , Vidya Menon  2
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Bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients before and during the COVID-19 surge in a community hospital in the South Bronx

Afsheen Afzal et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Mar.
No abstract available

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

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Frequency of microorganisms detected in positive blood cultures in hospitalized patients during the pre-COVID-19 period (Jan to Feb 2020) & COVID-19 period (March to May 2020).
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