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SUBMITTER: Tsukamoto T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7920656 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsukamoto Tetsuya T Nakajima Noriko N Sakurai Aki A Nakajima Masayuki M Sakurai Eiko E Sato Yuko Y Takahashi Kenta K Kanno Takayuki T Kataoka Michiko M Katano Harutaka H Iwata Mitsunaga M Doi Yohei Y Suzuki Tadaki T
Emerging infectious diseases 20210114 3
Postmortem lung pathology of a patient in Japan with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection showed diffuse alveolar damage as well as bronchopneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. The distribution of each pathogen and the accompanying histopathology suggested the infections progressed in a mutually exclusive manner within the lung, resulting in fatal respiratory failure. ...[more]