Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens

David Kim; James Quinn; Benjamin Pinsky; Nigam H Shah; Ian Brown

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6266

Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens

JAMA. 2020 May 26;323(20):2085-2086. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.6266.

Authors

David Kim¹, James Quinn¹, Benjamin Pinsky², Nigam H Shah³, Ian Brown¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
² Department of Pathology and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
³ Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

Abstract

This study describes the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection with noncoronavirus respiratory pathogens in a sample of symptomatic patients undergoing PCR testing in March 2020.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
COVID-19
Child
Child, Preschool
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Coronavirus Infections / microbiology
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Middle Aged
Mycoplasma pneumoniae / isolation & purification
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications
Pneumonia, Viral / microbiology
Pneumonia, Viral / virology*
RNA Viruses / isolation & purification
Respiratory Tract Infections / microbiology
Respiratory Tract Infections / virology*
SARS-CoV-2
Young Adult