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A Case of SARS-CoV-2 Clinical Relapse after 4 Negative RT-PCR Tests in Greece: Recurrence or Reinfection?

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the greatest public health concern of the year 2020. There are several worldwide reports of patients who have managed to recover from SARS-CoV-2 infection with negative PCR test results, that for unknown reasons convert back to positive PCR. We report a case of a patient in ou...

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Published in:Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors: Konstantinou, Fotis, Skrapari, Ioanna, Bareta, Eleni, Bakogiannis, Nikolaos, Papadopoulou, Anna-Maria, Bakoyiannis, Chris
Format: case study tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 4/12/2021
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          Konstantinou, Fotis
          Skrapari, Ioanna
          Bareta, Eleni
          Bakogiannis, Nikolaos
          Papadopoulou, Anna-Maria
          Bakoyiannis, Chris
        affil: First Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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          COVID-19 Drug Therapy
          COVID-19 Symptoms
          COVID-19 Testing Methods
          Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
          COVID-19 Diagnosis
          Recurrence
          Male
          Middle Age
          False Negative Results
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
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      ab: SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the greatest public health concern of the year 2020. There are several worldwide reports of patients who have managed to recover from SARS-CoV-2 infection with negative PCR test results, that for unknown reasons convert back to positive PCR. We report a case of a patient in our hospital who developed positive PCR test results for SARS-CoV-2, after 4 consecutive results that were negative, along with a full-blown clinical syndrome of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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