Case Report
Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A co-infection in an Italian patient: Mini-review of the literature

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Highlights

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    Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A co-infection.

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    Challenging in co-infection cases identification.

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    Improvement of preventive measures and patients’ clinical outcome.

Abstract

A case of acute respiratory distress syndrome due to SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A co-infection and a mini-review of the literature is reported. Even in COVID-19 epidemics, the early identification of concurrent respiratory pathogens is important to improve etiological diagnosis, preventive measures and patients’ clinical management and outcome.

Keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome
SARS-CoV-2
Influenza A
COVID-19 epidemic

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Drs D’Abramo and Lepore equally contributed.

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