Re-Infection by SARS-Cov-2 with in 5 Months: A Case Report

Luis Darío-Martínez-Gamez¹, Elva Adelina Ibarra-Valencia², María Angélica Meza-Ledesma³, Gilberto Flores-Vargas⁴ , Efraín Navarro-Olivos⁴, María de Jesús Gallardo-Luna⁴ and Nicolás Padilla-Raygoza^4*

¹Department of Teaching, Community Hospital Apaseo el Alto, General Coordination of Public Health, Institute of Public Health from Guanajuato State. Apaseo el Alto, Mexico.

²Department of Epidemiology,Sanitary Jurisdiction III, General Coordination of Public Health, Institute of Public Health from Guanajuato State. Celaya, México.

³Community Hospital Apaseo el Alto, General Coordination of Public Health, Institute of Public Health from Guanajuato State. Apaseo el Alto, Mexico.

⁴Department of Research and Technological Development, Directorate of Teaching and Research, Institute of Public Health from Guanajuato State, Guanajuato, Mexico. CP36250.

Corresponding Author E-mail: npadillar@guanajuato.gob.mx

Abstract:

The first reinfection in the world in Hong Kong, later in Europe (Holland, Belgium) and USA, was documented. In Mexico until November 2020 there are no medical articles that tell us about reinfection; in Celaya Guanajuato the case of a female patient presented with symptoms of COVID-19, 2 polymerase chain reaction in real time tests are performed, in the Laboratory of Public Health from Guanajuato State in an interval of time, less than 5 months; the first in June 2020, with a positive result, received symptomatic treatment and isolation at home for 14 days, negative IgG antibodies test 38 days later; the second time, she presented clinical data on COVID-19 in November From 2020. It was not find references about re-infections by SARS-CoV-2 in Mexico; in Celaya Guanajuato was presented the case of female patient who has symptoms of COVID-19, with new positive PCR, required hospitalization and high-flow oxygen therapy when presenting with pneumonia, was performed simple chest Computing tomography, IgG and IgM antibodies.The evolution was good with discharge from hospitalization 72 hours after admission, continuing his outpatient management until discharge.

Keywords: Polymerase Chain Reaction in Real Time; SARS-CoV-2; Re-infection; antibodies

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