Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient

Can a patient diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be infected again? This issue appears to be unsolved. Protective immunity following infection with COVID-19 is still not fully known. In the coming months, an awareness of COVID-19 reinfection will be crucial in directing government an...

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Autores principales: Jadeja, Dhigishaba, Basak, Payel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8054836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884227
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13961
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spelling pubmed-80548362021-04-20 Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient Jadeja, Dhigishaba Basak, Payel Cureus Internal Medicine Can a patient diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be infected again? This issue appears to be unsolved. Protective immunity following infection with COVID-19 is still not fully known. In the coming months, an awareness of COVID-19 reinfection will be crucial in directing government and public health policy managements. Here, we present a case of symptomatic reinfection following recovery from COVID-19 in a geriatric patient. Cureus 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8054836/ /pubmed/33884227 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13961 Text en Copyright © 2021, Jadeja et al. https://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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Jadeja, Dhigishaba
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Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient
title Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient
title_full Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient
title_fullStr Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient
title_full_unstemmed Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient
title_short Symptomatic Reinfection in Previously Recovered Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Geriatric Patient
title_sort symptomatic reinfection in previously recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) geriatric patient
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8054836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884227
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