Healthcare-Associated SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection after 3 Months with a Phylogenetically Distinct Omicron Variant : A Case Report

This case report describes a 60-year-old female patient suffering from systemic sclerosis, for which she received immunomodulatory drugs. Her first SARS-CoV-2-positive nasopharyngeal sample was obtained in the emergency department, on 31 January 2022. Whole genome sequencing confirmed infection with Omicron BA.1.1. Her hospital stay was long and punctuated by many complications, including admission to the intensive care unit. At the beginning of April 2022, she started complaining of increased coughing, for which another SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR test was performed. The latter nasopharyngeal swab showed a strongly positive result. To support the theory of healthcare-associated reinfection, whole genome sequencing was performed and confirmed reinfection with Omicron BA.2. Since this patient was one of ten positive cases in this particular ward, a hospital outbreak investigation was performed. Whole genome sequencing data were available for five of these ten patients and showed a cluster of four patients with ≤2 small nucleotide polymorphisms difference.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Viruses - 14(2022), 9 vom: 23. Aug.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Callebaut, Kim [VerfasserIn]
Stoefs, Anke [VerfasserIn]
Stylemans, Dimitri [VerfasserIn]
Soetens, Oriane [VerfasserIn]
Crombé, Florence [VerfasserIn]
Vancutsem, Ellen [VerfasserIn]
Imamura, Hideo [VerfasserIn]
Wybo, Ingrid [VerfasserIn]
De Geyter, Deborah [VerfasserIn]
Piérard, Denis [VerfasserIn]
Muyldermans, Astrid [VerfasserIn]
Demuyser, Thomas [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Case Reports
Healthcare-associated
Nucleotides
Omicron
Reinfection

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Date Completed 26.09.2022

Date Revised 18.09.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/v14091852

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346630320