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. 2022 Aug;85(2):174-211.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.04.034. Epub 2022 Apr 23.

High rate of reinfection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

Nhu Ngoc Nguyen  1 , Linda Houhamdi  1 , Van Thuan Hoang  2 , Didier Stoupan  3 , Pierre-Edouard Fournier  1 , Didier Raoult  4 , Philippe Colson  4 , Philippe Gautret  5
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High rate of reinfection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

Nhu Ngoc Nguyen et al. J Infect. 2022 Aug.
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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare relative to the present study. Didier Raoult was a consultant for the Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, Japan from 2018 to 2020. He is a scientific board member of the Eurofins company and a founder of a microbial culture company (Culture Top). Funding sources had no role in the design and con-duct of the study, the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.

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Fig. 1
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infections (left axis) and reinfections (right axis) (a) and of major SARS-CoV-2 variants determined (b) in patients diagnosed at IHU Méditerranée Infection, 2020–2022.
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Fig. 2
Frequency of reinfection (proportion of infected patients during a given epidemic who had previous infection with SARS-CoV-2, red curve) and estimated risk for reinfection (proportion of patients first infected during a given epidemic who get reinfected at the time the study.
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  • "Rapid reinfections with different or same Omicron SARS-CoV-2 sub-variants".
    Vera-Lise I, Dominik E, Elisabeth R, Kerstin H, Raffael F, Angelika X, Tibor A, Jusztina B, Ursula K, Jochen H, David K, John-Hendrik J. Vera-Lise I, et al. J Infect. 2022 Oct;85(4):e96-e98. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.07.003. Epub 2022 Jul 8. J Infect. 2022. PMID: 35810939 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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