BMJ · 2020 · 73 citations · 0 references
Life SciencesInfectious DiseasesMicrobiologyMedical MicrobiologyMolecular VirologyVirologyEmerging Viral DiseasesGenomic EpidemiologyViral EpidemiologyViral GenomicsViral InfectionsViral PersistenceMolecular Epidemiology Of VirusesReinfection RiskReinfection StudiesViral Outbreak Investigation
A 33 year old man from Hong Kong is reported to have the first confirmed case of covid reinfection.Researchers from the University of Hong Kong's Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Department of Microbiology found that the patient's two episodes were caused by virus strains with clearly different genome sequences.