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Swab me, I am Infected!

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Infectious diseases

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.

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2020.48246.1113

Keywords

COVID-19, cough, Swabbing

Authors

First Name

Aya

Last Name

Mahros

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of ‎Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University, Kafrelshiekh, Egypt‎

Email

yoye_85@hotmail.com

City

Kafrelsheikh

Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Emara

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of ‎Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University, Kafrelshiekh, Egypt‎

Email

emara_20007@yahoo.com

City

Zagazig

Orcid

0000-0002-1504-7851

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

H

Affiliation

Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of ‎Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University, Kafrelshiekh, Egypt‎

Email

dr.mm63@yahoo.com

City

kafrelsheikh

Orcid

0000-0003-1761-3527

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Radwan

MiddleName

Said

Affiliation

Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of ‎Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University, Kafrelshiekh, Egypt‎

Email

msr2015@yahoo.com

City

Kafrelsheikh

Orcid

-

First Name

Hassan

Last Name

Elbatee

MiddleName

E

Affiliation

Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of ‎Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University, Kafrelshiekh, Egypt‎

Email

hassanelbatae_68@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

Volume

11

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

22124

Issue Date

2021-03-01

Receive Date

2020-10-31

Publish Date

2021-03-01

Page Start

88

Page End

95

Print ISSN

2090-7613

Online ISSN

2090-7184

Article File

AEJI_Volume 11_Issue 1_Pages 88-95.pdf

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/article_132651.html

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12

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Case report

Type Code

622

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

Publication Link

https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023