Swab me, I am Infected! | ||||
| Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2021, Page 88-95 PDF (617 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Case report | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2020.48246.1113 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Aya M Mahros  ; Mohamed Hassan Emara ; Mohammed H Ahmed ; Mohamed Said Radwan; Hassan E Elbatee
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| Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University, Kafrelshiekh, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In the late December 2019 an outbreak of a novel coronavirus termed as SARS- CoV-2 has emerged in Wuhan city, China then spread worldwide to cause serious life threatening pandemic that seriously affect the economics and daily life. The classical picture of COVID-19 is described as fever, cough and dyspnea. However, different atypical presentations have been described in the literature. We confronted by a patient 49 years old without respiratory manifestation who sought medical advice for swabbing for COVID-19, with refusal from the local governmental center for swabbing, two days later, the patient become dyspneic, desaturated with positive COVID-19 swab. We recommend that care givers should not wait the full typical respiratory manifestations of COVID-19.We also realize that there is a big shortage in swabbing and examination tools especially in the developing countries like ours, however, caregivers in swabbing center should have a high index of suspicion with patients who have persistent symptoms. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19; Cough; Swabbing | ||||
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