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Table 6 Culture data and antibiotic management

From: COVID-19 related deaths in an urban academic medical center in Brooklyn – a descriptive case series

Viral panels, n = 21

 Positive (n, %)

1 (4·8)

  Result

Coronavirus HKU1

Cultures

 Additional cultures drawn (n = 200)

179 (89·5)

 Positive cultures

35

  Blood

 

   Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp.

16

   Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

4

   Candida albicans

2

   Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

1

   Klebsiella pneumoniae

1

  Tracheal aspirate

 

   Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

2

   Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2

   Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

1

   Klebsiella pneumoniae

1

   Enterobacter gergoviae

1

  Urine

 

   Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2

   Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli

1

   Klebsiella pneumoniae

1

Receipt of ≥72 h of antibiotics (n = 200) (n, %)

111 (55·5)