Bacterial etiology, antimicrobial susceptibility, and clinical outcomes in cervicofacial space infections before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a 10-year single-centre study
Shuang He, Zheng Jiang, Yibei Wang, Mailudan Ainiwaer, Xiaoqin Ji, Huiling Zhao · 2026
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Shuang He and co-authors review ten years of severe face and neck infections in a 2026 hospital study from western China. Such infections fill deep spaces in the face and jaw, and they can turn life-threatening. The team pulled records for 542 patients who had open surgery at one large hospital. They tracked germs found, drug response, and how patients fared.
Germs grew from samples in 400 cases, just under three quarters of the total. Two germ groups, Streptococcus and Klebsiella, showed up most often. Five drugs still worked on many samples, led by levofloxacin. Case counts fell early in the decade, then rose again. Patients treated during and after the COVID-19 years faced far higher odds of problems in hospital than those treated before.
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| CREATOR | Shuang He, Zheng Jiang, Yibei Wang, Mailudan Ainiwaer, Xiaoqin Ji, Huiling Zhao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |