❦ Critically ill COVID-19 patients are highly susceptible to opportunistic fungal infection due to many factors, including virus-induced immune dysregulation, host-related comorbidities, overuse and misuse of antibiotics or corticosteroids, immune modulator drugs, and the emergencies caused by the pandemic.

Fungal coinfection is a common complication of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU.

Candidiasis, aspergillosis, and mucormycosis are the most common COVID-19-associated fungal infections and have a great impact on mortality rates.

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📖 (18 Apr 2023 ~ BMC Infectious Diseases) Fungal infection profile in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a prospective study at a large teaching hospital in a middle-income country ➤

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