id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-255774-ux3c3dzf Zhong, H. Characterization of Microbial Co-infections in the Respiratory Tract of hospitalized COVID-19 patients 2020-07-05 .txt text/plain 2900 139 48 Interpretation Our findings identified distinct patterns of co-infections with SARS-CoV-2 and various respiratory pathogenic microbes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in relation to disease severity. Likewise, metatranscriptomics-detected bacterial or fungal respiratory co-infections were 6 3 defined if the respiratory specimens (at least one sample) of severe patients were mono-dominated (relative abundance >60%) by 6 4 pathogenic microbes known to cause nosocomial infections (appendix 2 p 9: TableS8). Sixty-seven serial 9 7 clinical specimens from the respiratory tract (RT) (n=47, sputum, nasal and throat swab) and gastrointestinal tract (GIT) (n=20, 9 8 anal swab and feces) of these patients were obtained during the same above period for comprehensive assessment of microbial non-rRNA transcripts) varied between different types of specimens, constituting a relatively high fraction of total high-quality 0 6 reads among RT specimens and a low fraction among GIT specimens (appendix 1 p 1: Supplementary figure 1 and appendix 2 0 7 p 4: TableS3). ./cache/cord-255774-ux3c3dzf.txt ./txt/cord-255774-ux3c3dzf.txt