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SUBMITTER: Deslandes A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7196402 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deslandes A A Berti V V Tandjaoui-Lambotte Y Y Alloui Chakib C Carbonnelle E E Zahar J R JR Brichler S S Cohen Yves Y
International journal of antimicrobial agents 20200503 6
The COVID-19 epidemic is believed to have started in late January 2020 in France. Here we report a case of a patient hospitalised in December 2019 in an intensive care unit in a hospital in the north of Paris for haemoptysis with no aetiological diagnosis. RT-PCR was performed retrospectively on the stored respiratory sample and confirmed the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Based on this result, it appears that the COVID-19 epidemic started mu ...[more]