Low prevalence of bloodstream infection and high blood culture contamination rates in patients with COVID-19

David Yu; Karolina Ininbergs; Karolina Hedman; Christian G. Giske; Kristoffer Strålin; Volkan Özenci

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242533

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Low prevalence of bloodstream infection and high blood culture contamination rates in patients with COVID-19

David Yu,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Division of Clinical Microbiology F 72, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Functional Area of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Karolina Ininbergs,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Karolina Hedman,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Christian G. Giske,

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kristoffer Strålin,

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Volkan Özenci

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: volkan.ozenci@ki.se

Current address: Division of Clinical Microbiology F 72, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliations Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8069-4027

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Low prevalence of bloodstream infection and high blood culture contamination rates in patients with COVID-19

David Yu,
Karolina Ininbergs,
Karolina Hedman,
Christian G. Giske,
Kristoffer Strålin,
Volkan Özenci

Published: November 23, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242533

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