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Diagnostic dilemma, an incidental diagnosis of COVID 19

COVID 19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan City of China. Since then, it continues to spread globally and has been declared a pandemic. These patients present predominantly with respiratory complaints; however, in this article, we describe a case that was detected...

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Autor principal: Singh, Jaskeerat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7671727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1800165
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description COVID 19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan City of China. Since then, it continues to spread globally and has been declared a pandemic. These patients present predominantly with respiratory complaints; however, in this article, we describe a case that was detected incidentally during workup of another suspecting diagnosis. We also elaborate on the benefits and importance of rapid testing.
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spelling pubmed-76717272020-11-23 Diagnostic dilemma, an incidental diagnosis of COVID 19 Singh, Jaskeerat J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report COVID 19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan City of China. Since then, it continues to spread globally and has been declared a pandemic. These patients present predominantly with respiratory complaints; however, in this article, we describe a case that was detected incidentally during workup of another suspecting diagnosis. We also elaborate on the benefits and importance of rapid testing. Taylor & Francis 2020-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7671727/ /pubmed/33235668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1800165 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Diagnostic dilemma, an incidental diagnosis of COVID 19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7671727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235668
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