COVID-19 in a Patient Newly Diagnosed with AIDS: Asymptomatic Disease | Zendy

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COVID-19 in a Patient Newly Diagnosed with AIDS: Asymptomatic Disease

Author(s) -

Manuel Serrano Martins,

Fabiana Pimentel,

Wildemar Costa,

Claudia Fernandes

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

european journal of case reports in internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125

H-Index - 1

ISSN - 2284-2594

DOI - 10.12890/2021_002204

Subject(s) - asymptomatic , medicine , immunosuppression , pandemic , context (archaeology) , covid-19 , disease , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , immunology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology , biology

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges to scientific community. It’s behaviour and outcomes in people living with HIV is not yet well studied. We report a case of a 34-year-old-male with a newly diagnosed HIV infection stage 4 and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Although immunocompromised patients are classified as a high risk group for developing severe COVID-19, HIV related immunosuppression may have a protective role.

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