Open AccessTHE FIRST REPORT OF A POSSIBLE SARS-CoV-2 REINFECTION IN NEPAL
Author(s) -
Ranjit Sah,
Namrata Roy,
Alfonso J. RodríguezMorales,
Aman Mishra,
Saurabh Das,
Lasata Shrestha,
Yogesh Preet Singh,
Nidhi Shah,
Hari Prasad Kattel,
Zareena Fathah,
Sadeq A. Quraishi,
E. Barkoudah,
Akihiko Ozaki,
Tsuyoshi Tanimoto,
Andy Crump,
Ruchi Tiwari,
Khan Sharun,
Senthilkumar Natesan,
Kamleshwar Singh,
Kuldeep Dhama
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of experimental biology and agricultural sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2320-8694
DOI - 10.18006/2021.9(1).1.4
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , virology , betacoronavirus , medicine , biology , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
Since August 2020, a growing number of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases, after approximately three months, in most of them, again presented a new infection episode, which has been defined as reinfection. So far, no cases have been reported in Nepal, and still there is limited the number of them, especially of those fully confirmed. Here, we report a case and discuss its multiple implications in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.