A LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST WAVE OF COVID-19 IN CHINA: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY AND HEALTH CARE RESOURCE USE AMONG SEVERE OR CRITICAL PATIENTS.

A look back at the first wave of COVID-19 in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality and health care resource use among severe or critical patients.

BackgroundTo investigate the mortality and health care resource use among patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in the first wave of pandemic in China.MethodsWe performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the mortality, discharge rate, length of hospital stay, and use of invasive ventilation in s

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First case of persistent Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteraemia due to septic thrombosis successfully treated with a cefiderocol-containing regimen

ABSTRACT: Introduction: There is scarce evidence in literature of what should be the best antimicrobial treatment for bloodstream infections (BSIs) sustained Notebook by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, a peculiar pathogen that intrinsically withstands to most of the available antibiotics.Results and conclusion: Here, we describe a challenging case of

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