A clinical case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reinfection in a health care worker

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Abstract

The peculiarities of immune responses to a novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) and the possibility of reinfection due to the variability of humoral immunity are currently under discussion. This article presents a case of COVID-19 reinfection in a health care worker.

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Irina V. Kovtyukh

Federal State Budgetary Institution of Healthcare Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: ivkovtuh@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9176-1889
Russian Federation, 1A Litovsky Boulevard, 117593, Moscow

Gennady E. Gendlin

N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

Email: rgmut2@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7846-1611

MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor

Russian Federation, Moscow

Igor G. Nikitin

N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

Email: igor.nikitin.65@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1699-0881

MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor

Russian Federation, Moscow

Ekaterina V. Kabirova

City clinical hospital №24

Email: bazamarsa@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Mosсow

Olga Yu. Markina

City clinical hospital №24

Email: o.u@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Mosсow

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2. Fig. 1. Thoracic computed tomography of patient K. in the first episode of the disease.

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3. Fig. 2. Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 (nCoV IgG) antibodies after the first episode of the disease.

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