Open AccessSymptomatic reinfection with COVID-19: A first from Western India
Author(s) -
Tanisha Vora,
Pragnesh Vora,
Falguni Vora,
Kamal Sharma,
Hardik D Desai
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2002_20
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , epidemiology , antibody , pediatrics , virology , immunology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
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.