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SUMMARY
The lack of adequate diagnosis tools for ruling out bacterial co-infections at admission, doubled by the considerable risk of bacterial secondary infections, represents the leading causes of antibiotic misuse. A study conducted by Rawson et_al reported antibiotic use in almost three quarters of the analyzed COVID-19 patients in the early pandemic period, with only 8% of cases having culture-proven bacterial co-infection or secondary infection. Current reports indicate Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii as the microbial strains that often cause nosocomial infections and are also the main agents of bacterial infections . . .
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