{"id":8700,"date":"2021-11-19T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/unkategorisiert\/bacteriophages-could-prevent-bacterial-co-infections-or-pneumonia-in-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:06:14","slug":"bacteriophages-could-prevent-bacterial-co-infections-or-pneumonia-in-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/unkategorisiert\/bacteriophages-could-prevent-bacterial-co-infections-or-pneumonia-in-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteriophages could prevent bacterial co-infections or pneumonia in COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kw6oa3bs-a4bfa229c6cf40f6be0569809184a93f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Can bacteriophages prevent bacterial pneumonia in COVID-19?<\/h2>\n<p>Most patients with COVID-19 present at the time of diagnosis with<br \/>\nfever and cough. At the latest when dyspnoea occurs, patients undergo<br \/>\nradiological diagnostics (especially low-dose CT), which typically shows bilateral infiltrates<br \/>\n[1, 2]. Although the radiological pattern in COVID-19 is specific and indicates a viral<br \/>\norigin, the overall constellation of clinical symptoms and infiltrates in<br \/>\nmany cases also suggests an (community-acquired) atypical pneumonia and therefore<br \/>\noften leads to the use of antibiotics. The rationale for this is an analogy to influenza suspected by the<br \/>\ntreating physicians, in which between 11% and 35% of cases<br \/>\nare complicated by a bacterial co-infection or a secondary bacterial pneumonia (usually caused by<br \/>\nStreptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus) [3]. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis<br \/>\nand other fungal infections are also discussed as relevant complications<br \/>\nof severe influenza [4]. In studies reporting co- or superinfections in<br \/>\nSARS-1, 31% of cases had a bacterial or mycotic superinfection [5].     <\/p>\n<p>Due to the immune system being weakened by COVID-19, bacteria can multiply more easily. This can lead to pneumonia.<br \/>\nBacteria can be treated very effectively with bacteriophages or antibiotics. <\/p>\n<p>Treatment with bacteriophages is carried out as in bronchial asthma. Phages are nebulised using an inhalation device and inhaled. This allows the phages to reach the surface of the lungs and lyse (kill) bacteria located on the lung surface.  <\/p>\n<p>You can find out how phage therapy works for bronchial asthma here.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.phage.help\/phagentherapie-bei-asthma-bronchiale\/<\/p>\n<p>Source: DOI 10.25646\/6961<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/dgn.org\/neuronews\/journal_club\/hohe-rate-von-respiratorischen-co-und-superinfektionen-bei-covid-19\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10405-021-00385-2<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phage.help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Covid19.jpg?fit=800%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazElU-2gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}