Swab me, I am Infected! | ||
| Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||
| Article 12, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 88-95 PDF (617 K) | ||
| Document Type: Case report | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2020.48246.1113 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Aya M Mahros* ; Mohamed Hassan Emara; Mohammed H Ahmed; Mohamed Said Radwan; Hassan E Elbatee | ||
| 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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