SARS‐CoV‐2, bacterial co‐infections, and AMR: the deadly trio in COVID‐19?

Abstract

At the end of December 2019, Chinese public health authorities reported a cluster of pneumonia of unknown cause in central city of Wuhan in Hubei province. Shortly after, Chinese scientists identified a hitherto undescribed beta-coronavirus as the likely causative agent. The disease is now referred to as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since 31 December 2019 and as of 25 May 2020, 5,432,512 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported globally, including 345,467 deaths.