Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19

The presence of dysentery as the first manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly atypical and it may present with concomitant respiratory symptoms or as a single manifestation. Diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation similar to gastrointestinal diseases, su...

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Autores principales: Seidman-Sorsby, Alec, Moscona-Nissan, Alberto, Cruz-Zermeño, Mayte, González-Chávez, Alberto
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/PMC8752399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036202
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20368
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author Seidman-Sorsby, Alec
Moscona-Nissan, Alberto
Cruz-Zermeño, Mayte
González-Chávez, Alberto
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description The presence of dysentery as the first manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly atypical and it may present with concomitant respiratory symptoms or as a single manifestation. Diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation similar to gastrointestinal diseases, such as infectious diarrhea. We present a case of a 35-year-old male who presented with dysentery as the first manifestation of severe COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-87523992022-01-14 Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19 Seidman-Sorsby, Alec Moscona-Nissan, Alberto Cruz-Zermeño, Mayte González-Chávez, Alberto Cureus Internal Medicine The presence of dysentery as the first manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly atypical and it may present with concomitant respiratory symptoms or as a single manifestation. Diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation similar to gastrointestinal diseases, such as infectious diarrhea. We present a case of a 35-year-old male who presented with dysentery as the first manifestation of severe COVID-19. Cureus 2021-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8752399/ /pubmed/35036202 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20368 Text en Copyright © 2021, Seidman-Sorsby 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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Seidman-Sorsby, Alec
Moscona-Nissan, Alberto
Cruz-Zermeño, Mayte
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Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19
title Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19
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title_short Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036202
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20368
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