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Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection
• Whether SARS-CoV-2 infection confers immunity to reinfection is uncertain. • The ‘second wave’ of transmission offered an opportunity to examine this. • We observed no symptomatic reinfections in a cohort of healthcare workers. • This apparent immunity to re-infection was maintained for at least 6...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33373652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.12.023 |
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author | Hanrath, Aidan T. Payne, Brendan A.I. Duncan, Christopher J.A. |
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description | • Whether SARS-CoV-2 infection confers immunity to reinfection is uncertain. • The ‘second wave’ of transmission offered an opportunity to examine this. • We observed no symptomatic reinfections in a cohort of healthcare workers. • This apparent immunity to re-infection was maintained for at least 6 months. • Further studies are required to define immunological mechanism(s) and durability. |
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spelling | pubmed-78321162021-01-26 Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection Hanrath, Aidan T. Payne, Brendan A.I. Duncan, Christopher J.A. J Infect Letter to the Editor • Whether SARS-CoV-2 infection confers immunity to reinfection is uncertain. • The ‘second wave’ of transmission offered an opportunity to examine this. • We observed no symptomatic reinfections in a cohort of healthcare workers. • This apparent immunity to re-infection was maintained for at least 6 months. • Further studies are required to define immunological mechanism(s) and durability. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Infection Association. 2020-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7832116/ /pubmed/33373652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.12.023 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Infection Association. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Hanrath, Aidan T. Payne, Brendan A.I. Duncan, Christopher J.A. Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
title | Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
title_full | Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
title_fullStr | Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
title_full_unstemmed | Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
title_short | Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
title_sort | prior sars-cov-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33373652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.12.023 |
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