︎Since its first detection in 2019, the novel pathogen, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, has since spread to a pandemic level causing COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to prolonged and recurrent hospital admissions.
︎Indwelling devices, such as urinary catheters and feeding tubes, are amongst the common source of recurrent bacterial infections during admission of patients.
︎Without a clear treatment strategy in the early months of the pandemic, antibiotics were often used for possible bacterial coinfections which may have led patients to develop multidrug-resistant infections.
Multidrug-resistant infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis and efforts should be made to avoid delaying the administration of appropriate antibiotic therapy.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196655321005459
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