COVID-19 Reinfection

The possibilities of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to reinfect individuals have not been reported yet. All reported hypothesis of reinfection has been attributed to either relapse of the disease or having a mild course of symptoms. We report two cases of COVID-19 positive patients where they h...

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Autores principales: Habadi, Mohammed I, Balla Abdalla, Tarig H, Hamza, Nashaat, Al-Gedeei, Afnan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33643719
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12730
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author Habadi, Mohammed I
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description The possibilities of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to reinfect individuals have not been reported yet. All reported hypothesis of reinfection has been attributed to either relapse of the disease or having a mild course of symptoms. We report two cases of COVID-19 positive patients where they had complete resolution of symptoms and negative COVID-19 results. Weeks later, they returned with milder symptoms and a positive COVID-19 culture swab. In conclusion, early stages of COVID-19 where mild signs and symptoms are reported can be prolonged and the virus can stay dormant in the body for relapse later on.
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spelling pubmed-78851832021-02-27 COVID-19 Reinfection Habadi, Mohammed I Balla Abdalla, Tarig H Hamza, Nashaat Al-Gedeei, Afnan Cureus Family/General Practice The possibilities of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to reinfect individuals have not been reported yet. All reported hypothesis of reinfection has been attributed to either relapse of the disease or having a mild course of symptoms. We report two cases of COVID-19 positive patients where they had complete resolution of symptoms and negative COVID-19 results. Weeks later, they returned with milder symptoms and a positive COVID-19 culture swab. In conclusion, early stages of COVID-19 where mild signs and symptoms are reported can be prolonged and the virus can stay dormant in the body for relapse later on. Cureus 2021-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7885183/ /pubmed/33643719 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12730 Text en Copyright © 2021, Habadi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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