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. 2023 Apr 22;33(4):675–681. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad060

Table 2.

Difference of microorganism specific rate linked to COVID-19 co-infection in both waves, incidence of antimicrobial resistance and the most common antimicrobial resistance in the BI group

Total 1st wave 2nd wave P-value
No. 4754 1576 3178
Gender (male) 3164 (66.55) 1652 (67.37) 1512 (65.68) 0.228
Mean age (years) 67.53 (67.16–67.89) 66.94 (66.43–67.45) 68.16 (67.63–68.68) 0.001
Length of stay (days) 40.04 (39.23–40.85) 46.9 (45.59–48.21) 32.73 (31.91–33.55) <0.001
In-hospital death 1590 (33.45) 714 (29.12) 876 (38.05) <0.001
Charlson Index 1.49 (1.44–1.54) 1.41 (1.34–1.48) 1.58 (1.51–1.66) 0.001
 No comoborbidities 2001 (42.09) 1105 (45.07) 896 (38.92) <0.001
 1 comoborbidities 772 (16.24) 399 (16.27) 373 (16.2) 0.980
 2 comoborbidities 915 (19.25) 440 (17.94) 475 (20.63) 0.021
 >2 1066 (22.42) 508 (20.72) 558 (24.24) 0.004
ICU and intubation
 ICU 3178 (66.85) 1655 (67.5) 1523 (66.16) 0.344
 ICU death 1183 (24.88) 518 (21.13) 665 (28.89) <0.001
 ICU length of stay 30.6 (29.84–31.37) 34.99 (33.77–36.22) 25.84 (25.02–26.65) <0.001
 Mechanical ventilation 3085 (64.89) 1674 (68.27) 1411 (61.29) <0.001
 Ventilatory assistance 859 (18.07) 392 (15.99) 467 (20.29) <0.001
Tipo bacteria familia
 Gram-positive bacteria 604 (12.71) 298 (12.15) 306 (13.29) 0.256
Staphylococcus spp. 479 (79.3) 240 (80.54) 239 (78.1) 0.461
S. aureus 115 (24.01) 49 (20.42) 66 (27.62) 0.065
 Other Staphylococci 382 (79.75) 199 (82.92) 183 (76.57) 0.084
Streptococcus spp. and Enterococcus spp 134 (22.19) 61 (20.47) 73 (23.86) 0.317
S. pneumoniae 72 (53.73) 27 (44.26) 45 (61.64) 0.044
 Other Streptococci 65 (48.51) 35 (57.38) 30 (41.1) 0.060
 Other Gram-positive bacteria 1 (0.17) 1 (0.34) 0 (0.0) 0.310
Gram-negative bacteria 3862 (81.24) 2025 (82.59) 1837 (79.8) 0.015
Haemophilus influenzae 102 (2.64) 32 (1.58) 70 (3.81) <0.001
Neisseria meningitidis 2 (0.05) 1 (0.05) 1 (0.05) 0.945
Pseudomonas spp. 1554 (40.24) 853 (42.12) 701 (38.16) 0.012
 Enterobacterales 180 (4.66) 92 (4.54) 88 (4.79) 0.716
 Other Gram-negative bacteria 537 (13.9) 294 (14.52) 243 (13.23) 0.247
Anaerobic bacteria 270 (5.68) 158 (6.44) 112 (4.87) 0.022
 Other anaerobes 25 (9.26) 14 (8.86) 11 (9.82) 0.788
Clostridium spp. 248 (91.85) 145 (91.77) 103 (91.96) 0.955
 Other bacterial infections 327 (6.88) 138 (5.63) 189 (8.21) 0.001
 Mycoplasma pneumonia 16 (4.89) 6 (4.35) 10 (5.29) 0.696
 Chlamydia pneumonia 5 (1.53) 3 (2.17) 2 (1.06) 0.417
 Non-classified bacterial infections 306 (93.58) 129 (93.48) 177 (93.65) 0.950
 Antimicrobial drug resistance 749 (15.76) 404 (16.48) 345 (14.99) 0.171
 Resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics 551 (73.56) 300 (74.26) 251 (72.75) 0.642
 Meticilin-resistant S. aureus 190 (25.37) 113 (27.97) 77 (22.32) 0.076
 Resistance to penicilins 83 (11.08) 44 (10.89) 39 (11.3) 0.857
 Resistance to cephalosporins 45 (6.01) 25 (6.19) 20 (5.8) 0.822
 Resistance to other beta-lactam antibiotics 377 (50.33) 195 (48.27) 182 (52.75) 0.221
 Resistance to glucopeptides 2 (0.27) 2 (0.5) 0 (0.0) 0.191
 Resistance to quinolones 31 (4.14) 22 (5.45) 9 (2.61) 0.052
 Resistance to aminoglycoside macrolides sulfonamides or tetracyclines 26 (3.47) 14 (3.47) 12 (3.48) 0.992
 Resistance to other antibiotics 241 (32.18) 134 (33.17) 107 (31.01) 0.529
 Resistance to multiple antibiotics 150 (20.03) 74 (18.32) 76 (22.03) 0.206