Reinfection or relapse of COVID-19 in health care workers; case series of 2 patients from Pakistan

During an ongoing pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, main question which has arisen in everyone's mind is about the immune response that may protect from reinfection. Coronaviruses are known for short-term immunity. Their ability of mutations enables them to escape hos...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, A., Sana, F., Ikram, A., Yousaf, S., Khan, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33996101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100896
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description During an ongoing pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, main question which has arisen in everyone's mind is about the immune response that may protect from reinfection. Coronaviruses are known for short-term immunity. Their ability of mutations enables them to escape host immunity, thus increasing chances of reinfection. Here we report two cases of reinfection among health care workers who presented with symptoms of COVID-19 disease, after 3 months of first infectious course. Such documentations are necessary for epidemiological purposes and also to monitor response of virus on re-exposure.
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spelling pubmed-81061882021-05-10 Reinfection or relapse of COVID-19 in health care workers; case series of 2 patients from Pakistan Ahmed, A. Sana, F. Ikram, A. Yousaf, S. Khan, A. New Microbes New Infect Hot Topic During an ongoing pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, main question which has arisen in everyone's mind is about the immune response that may protect from reinfection. Coronaviruses are known for short-term immunity. Their ability of mutations enables them to escape host immunity, thus increasing chances of reinfection. Here we report two cases of reinfection among health care workers who presented with symptoms of COVID-19 disease, after 3 months of first infectious course. Such documentations are necessary for epidemiological purposes and also to monitor response of virus on re-exposure. Elsevier 2021-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8106188/ /pubmed/33996101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100896 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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