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

Authors

  • Lubana Akram Post Graduate [MD] Resident, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Md Harun Ur Rashid Khan Junior Consultant (Cardiology), Upazilla Health Complex, Shibchar, Madaripur, Bangladesh
  • Asif Iqbal Curator, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Arifa Akram Assistant Professor, Department of Virology, National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral center, Dhaka, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bjid.v7i00.50164

Keywords:

COVID-19; discharge; recurrence; persistence; RT-PCR

Abstract

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

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Published

2020-11-08

How to Cite

Akram, L., Khan, M. H. U. R., Iqbal, A., & Akram, A. (2020). A Case Report of Recurrent Covid-19 Infection of a Physician in Bangladesh: Re-infection or Persistence Infection?. Bangladesh Journal of Infectious Diseases, 7(00), S57-S60. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjid.v7i00.50164

Issue

Vol 7, Supplementary Issue-2 (2020): Pandemic COVID19

Section

Case Reports

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