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Case Reports
. 2021 Mar;10(3):1496-1498.
doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2002_20. Epub 2021 Apr 8.

Symptomatic reinfection with COVID-19: A first from Western India

Tanisha Vora  1 , Pragnesh Vora  2 , Falguni Vora  2 , Kamal Sharma  3 , Hardik D Desai  4
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Symptomatic reinfection with COVID-19: A first from Western India

Tanisha Vora et al. J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

The reinfection of recovered COVID-19 patient is one of the major concerns worldwide. Here we report a case of previously recovered patient from Covid-19 who presented with symptomatic reinfection beyond 3 months. We report a case of 58 year old female patient who after presenting with symptomatic episode of RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19 in April 2020, presented with a new symptomatic infection by SARS-CoV-2 four months later. These 2 episodes of infection were caused by different sources as evident from her epidemiological correlates. This is the first epidemiologically, RAT, RT-PCR and antibody confirmed COVID-19 case of re-infection of SARS CoV-2 reported from Western India.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-SOV-2; recurrent infection.

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X-ray of patient with SARS-COV-2 recurrent infection
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