SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019

The COVID-19 epidemic is believed to have started in late January 2020 in France. Here we report a case of a patient hospitalised in December 2019 in an intensive care unit in a hospital in the north of Paris for haemoptysis with no aetiological diagnosis. RT-PCR was performed retrospectively on the...

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Autores principales: Deslandes, A., Berti, V., Tandjaoui-Lambotte, Y., Alloui, Chakib, Carbonnelle, E., Zahar, J.R., Brichler, S., Cohen, Yves
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. and International Society of Chemotherapy. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7196402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32371096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106006
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Sumario:The COVID-19 epidemic is believed to have started in late January 2020 in France. Here we report a case of a patient hospitalised in December 2019 in an intensive care unit in a hospital in the north of Paris for haemoptysis with no aetiological diagnosis. RT-PCR was performed retrospectively on the stored respiratory sample and confirmed the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Based on this result, it appears that the COVID-19 epidemic started much earlier in France.

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