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SUBMITTER: Gousseff M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7326402 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gousseff Marie M Penot Pauline P Gallay Laure L Batisse Dominique D Benech Nicolas N Bouiller Kevin K Collarino Rocco R Conrad Anne A Slama Dorsaf D Joseph Cédric C Lemaignen Adrien A Lescure François-Xavier FX Levy Bruno B Mahevas Matthieu M Pozzetto Bruno B Vignier Nicolas N Wyplosz Benjamin B Salmon Dominique D Goehringer Francois F Botelho-Nevers Elisabeth E
The Journal of infection 20200630 5
For the first 3 months of COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 was expected to be an immunizing non-relapsing disease. We report a national case series of 11 virologically-confirmed COVID-19 patients having experienced a second clinically- and virologically-confirmed acute COVID-19 episode. According to the clinical history, we discuss either re-infection or reactivation hypothesis. Larger studies including further virological, immunological and epidemiologic data are needed to understand the mechanisms ...[more]