Abstract

VERDUGUEZ ORELLANA, Aleida; ALMENDRAS, Rebeca Ledezma  and  LIMACHI-CHOQUE, Jhonny Wilson. RECURRENT INFECTION BY SARS-COV-2: CASE REPORT. Rev Cient Cienc Méd [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.2, pp.180-186.  Epub Dec 31, 2022. ISSN 1817-7433.  https://doi.org/10.51581/rccm.v25i2.519.

Clinically COVID-19 presents with flu-like symptoms and respiratory distress with or without hypoxia that can progress in severity, which partially responds to the presence of SARS-CoV-2 variants that would be responsible for heterologous reinfections. This case shows a sequence of four infections with time intervals between each infection of around 5 months coinciding with the periods in which four waves of infection occurred in Bolivia. The Covid-19, during the third episode was more severe than the previous ones with lung involvement, increased C-Reactive Protein and liver damage. It is assumed that such a situation responds to a heterologous infection with a variant different from the previous two and the possibility of development of the ADE phenomenon. This case would constitute the first documented report of recurrent SARS-CoV-2 and should serve to raise awareness about the importance of vaccination in order to reduce the possibility of reinfections.

Keywords : SARS-CoV-2; reinfections; genomic variants.

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