Has the COVID-19 pandemic led to multidrug-resistant infections?

• ︎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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