Eur J Case Rep Intern Med . Long-term Positivity to SARS-CoV-2: A Clinical Case of COVID-19 With Persistent Evidence of Infection

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Eur J Case Rep Intern Med


. 2020 May 11;7(6):001707.
doi: 10.12890/2020_001707. eCollection 2020.
Long-term Positivity to SARS-CoV-2: A Clinical Case of COVID-19 With Persistent Evidence of Infection


Damiano D'Ardes ¹ , Andrea Boccatonda ² , Ilaria Rossi ¹ , Michela Pontolillo ³ , Giulio Cocco ² , Cosima Schiavone ² , Francesca Santilli ¹ , Maria Teresa Guagnano ¹ , Marco Bucci ¹ , Francesco Cipollone ¹



Affiliations

• PMID: 32523924
• PMCID: PMC7279900
• DOI: 10.12890/2020_001707

Abstract

In December 2019, an outbreak of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was reported in Hubei province in China. The disease has since spread worldwide and the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. We describe the case of a 65-year-old woman who clinically recovered from COVID-19 but showed persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 for 51 days.
Learning points: A case of persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 is described.Some tests may pick up viral RNA fragments, giving a false positive result.The quarantining of infected patients to limit possible SARS-CoV-2 spread is important.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; persistent infection.