The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has become one of the main causes of febrile illness among emergency department patients and is always a differential diagnosis to keep in mind. Nonetheless, some patients with a history of exposure, persistent fever, and suspicion of COVID-19 end up having entirely different etiologies. He...

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Autores principales: Chiriboga, Jose D, Garcia, Jonathan, Garcia, Daniel, Mena, Santiago, Leon-Rojas, Jose E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9339226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35919211
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26493
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author Chiriboga, Jose D
Garcia, Jonathan
Garcia, Daniel
Mena, Santiago
Leon-Rojas, Jose E
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Garcia, Jonathan
Garcia, Daniel
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description COVID-19 has become one of the main causes of febrile illness among emergency department patients and is always a differential diagnosis to keep in mind. Nonetheless, some patients with a history of exposure, persistent fever, and suspicion of COVID-19 end up having entirely different etiologies. Here, we present the case of a 29-year-old male biologist with an uncommon presentation of a zoonotic disease, characterized by unspecific signs and symptoms, which led to a delayed diagnosis, causing significant emotional distress in the patient. We also coin the term “COVID-19 Mirage," to serve as a constant reminder for clinicians of the effect that COVID-19 has caused on the differential diagnosis of fever of unknown etiology.
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spelling pubmed-93392262022-08-01 The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic Chiriboga, Jose D Garcia, Jonathan Garcia, Daniel Mena, Santiago Leon-Rojas, Jose E Cureus Infectious Disease COVID-19 has become one of the main causes of febrile illness among emergency department patients and is always a differential diagnosis to keep in mind. Nonetheless, some patients with a history of exposure, persistent fever, and suspicion of COVID-19 end up having entirely different etiologies. Here, we present the case of a 29-year-old male biologist with an uncommon presentation of a zoonotic disease, characterized by unspecific signs and symptoms, which led to a delayed diagnosis, causing significant emotional distress in the patient. We also coin the term “COVID-19 Mirage," to serve as a constant reminder for clinicians of the effect that COVID-19 has caused on the differential diagnosis of fever of unknown etiology. Cureus 2022-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9339226/ /pubmed/35919211 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26493 Text en Copyright © 2022, Chiriboga 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.
spellingShingle Infectious Disease
Chiriboga, Jose D
Garcia, Jonathan
Garcia, Daniel
Mena, Santiago
Leon-Rojas, Jose E
The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short The COVID-19 Mirage: A Young Biologist With an Atypical Presentation of a Zoonotic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort covid-19 mirage: a young biologist with an atypical presentation of a zoonotic disease during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9339226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35919211
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26493
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