INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS ASSOCIATED WITH COVID 19: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE - What consequences have been observed from this association

The pandemic of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) was responsible for recording millions of deaths, having as etiologic agent SARS-CoV-2 that induces a severe inflammatory response caused by hyperresponsiveness of the immune system depressing the immunity of the individual, leaving him susceptible to co-infections. Thus, opportunistic fungi such as Candida spp. In this sense, this paper aims to perform a literature review about case reports of patients affected by COVID-19 associated with invasive infection of Candida spp.

About the author

Professore aggiunto-A, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche. Laureato in Farmacia e Analisi Clinica, specializzato in Microbiologia Clinica dalla Società Brasiliana di Microbiologia; Dottorato in Farmacologia.Membro permanente del programma post-laurea in Odontoiatria.

Product details

• Authors: Joice Kelly Cordeiro de Souza, Felipe Queiroga Sarmento Guerra
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2023
• EAN: 9786205765982
• ISBN: 9786205765982
• No. of pages: 52
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs