Lessons of the month: Co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 and influenza B virus in a patient with community-acquired pneumonia

Why we only infrequently detect or report two or more respiratory viruses co-infecting an adult host is poorly understood. We report a rare case where influenza B and SARS-CoV-2 caused viral pneumonia in a 74-year-old man diagnosed during the UK winter epidemic/pandemic for these organisms and discu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical medicine (London, England) England), 2020-11, Vol.20 (6), p.e262-e263
Hauptverfasser:	Coutinho, Abigail, Riaz, Afrah, Makan, Annabel, Crawford, Emma, Dev, Devapriya, Srinivasan, Koottalai, Ahmad, Nawaid, Moudgil, Harmesh
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Bacterial infections Betacoronavirus co-infection Coinfection Community-Acquired Infections Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Coronavirus Infections Coronaviruses COVID-19 Humans Influenza influenza B Influenza B virus Influenza, Human Lessons of the Month Lung - diagnostic imaging Lung - pathology Male Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 viral co-infection Viral infections Viruses
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Zusammenfassung:	Why we only infrequently detect or report two or more respiratory viruses co-infecting an adult host is poorly understood. We report a rare case where influenza B and SARS-CoV-2 caused viral pneumonia in a 74-year-old man diagnosed during the UK winter epidemic/pandemic for these organisms and discuss concepts of co-infection.
ISSN:	1470-2118 1473-4893
DOI:	10.7861/clinmed.2020-0598