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

Afsheen Afzal; Victor A Perez-Gutierrez; Edgar David Gómez; Aye Myat Mon; Carolina Moreira Sarmiento; ⁠Amna Khalid; Svetlana V. Polishchuk; Mohannad Al-Khateeb; Boyana Yankulova; Mubarak Hassan Yusuf; Yinelka Silverio De Castro; Anjana Pillai; Usha Venugopal; Addi Feinstein; Alexander LaFortune; Daniel Sittler; Karen Hennessy; Vidya P. Menon

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.349

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•Higher incidence of bloodstream infections (BSI) among patients during the COVID-19 surge.•Increased hospital-acquired and central line-associated BSI during the COVID-19 surge.•Enterococcus spp. was the most common microbe causing BSI during the COVID-19 surge.

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