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cord-329904-e05ywn5e	Jose, Merin	Fatal Superimposed Bacterial Sepsis in a Healthy Coronavirus (COVID-19) Patient	2020-05-29		.txt	text/plain	2256	118	46	We present a case of a healthy COVID positive individual, with no underlying comorbidities, who rapidly deteriorated overnight on readmission to the hospital after initial discharge and succumbed to this disease due to a superimposed bacterial infection with COVID pneumonia. This case report highlights the importance of educating COVID-19 positive patients about the precautions, as well as signs and symptoms of a superimposed bacterial infection, when their plan of care is in a home setting. It also emphasizes the potential role of checking procalcitonin levels as a part of routine laboratory investigation at initial presentation in all suspected as well as confirmed COVID-19 cases to rule out an on-going bacterial infection that can prove fatal in the course of the disease. Our emphasis from this case report is to highlight the risk of superimposed bacterial infection in COVID-19 patients.	./cache/cord-329904-e05ywn5e.txt	./txt/cord-329904-e05ywn5e.txt