First COVID-19 mortality case in Taiwan with bacterial co-infection by national surveillance of critically ill patients with influenza-negative pneumonia
2020
Wei-Cheng Chen | Yi-Chyi Lai | Chieh-Hui Lin | Jin-Fu Zheng | Wen-Chung Hung | Yi-Jen Wang | Tsung-Huai Kuo | Li-Hung Wu | Yao-Shen Tong | Min-Chi Lu | Keh-Sen Liu
A 63-year-old diabetic smoker with alcoholism was the first mortality case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. As concurrently infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae and subsequently with Klebsiella aerogenes, he was exposed by a national survey of patients with critically influenza-negative pneumonia. We recommend COVID-19 screening for patients with severe flu-like syndrome and protecting health-care workers from being infected.
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