A Case Report of Recurrent Covid-19 Infection of a Physician in Bangladesh: Re-infection or Persistence Infection?

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has created a large problem to the healthcare system all over the world. “Retest Positive” for SARS‐CoV‐2 from “recovered” patients (COVID‐19) has been reported recently which raised several questions for the COVID‐19 disease. In this case report, we had desc...

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Published inBangladesh journal of infectious diseases Vol. 7; pp. S57 - S60
Main Authors Akram, Lubana, Khan, Md Harun Ur Rashid, Iqbal, Asif, Akram, Arifa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dhaka National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital 08.11.2020
Subjects
Analgesics
Case reports
COVID-19
Fever
Hospitals
Infections
Infectious diseases
Laboratories
Medical referrals
Pathogens
Patients
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Virology
Vital signs
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Summary:The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has created a large problem to the healthcare system all over the world. “Retest Positive” for SARS‐CoV‐2 from “recovered” patients (COVID‐19) has been reported recently which raised several questions for the COVID‐19 disease. In this case report, we had described a patient who became positive after 1 month from the initial infection with SARS-CoV-2. It is therefore possible that recurrences should be actually persistent infections in which PCR resulted falsely negative during initial infection when he left home isolation assuming himself disease free. The discharge criteria should be ensured for a recovered patient to prevent the relapse or persistence of COVID-19. Bangladesh Journal of Infectious Diseases, October 2020;7(suppl_2):S57-S60
ISSN:2411-4820
2411-670X
DOI:10.3329/bjid.v7i00.50164