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cord-266627-rkupc9w0	Liu, Chengyin	Clinical characteristics and antibiotics treatment in suspected bacterial infection patients with COVID-19	2020-11-03		.txt	text/plain	2753	166	40	title: Clinical characteristics and antibiotics treatment in suspected bacterial infection patients with COVID-19 As a result, 473 patients were selected to suspected bacterial infection (SI) group based on higher white blood cell count and procalcitonin or bacterial pneumonia on chest radiography. Antibiotics were found associated with improved mortality and an increased risk for acute organ injury in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Intravenous moxifloxacin and meropenem increased the death rate in patients with suspected bacterial infection, while oral antibiotics reduced mortality in this group. Moreover, penicillin and meropenem treatments were associated with increased mortality of the patients with no evidence of bacterial infection. In the present study, we found that if laboratory tests indicated suspected bacterial infection, the empirical use of oral antibiotics might reduce mortality of patients with COVID-19. For the patients with no evidence of bacterial infection, receiving penicillin and meropenem increased mortality, and meropenem elevated the incidence of acute organ injury.	./cache/cord-266627-rkupc9w0.txt	./txt/cord-266627-rkupc9w0.txt