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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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Autores principales: Hanrath, Aidan T., Payne, Brendan A.I., Duncan, Christopher J.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Infection Association. 2020
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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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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.
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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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