Author: Mohindra, Ritin; Kanta, Poonam; Porchezhian, Pradakshana; Goyal, Kapil; Suri, Vikas; Singh, Mini P.; PVM, Lakshmi; Bhalla, Ashish
Title: COVID-19 infection in a HIV positive health care worker: first case report from a tertiary care hospital of North India Cord-id: 8fe670ta Document date: 2021_4_7
ID: 8fe670ta
Snippet: People living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PLHIV) are at greater risk of developing prolonged illness due to COVID 19 leading to longer duration of virus shedding owing to their underlying immune defects. The present study compared SARS-CoV-2 infection developing at the same time among two health care workers living with and without a history of HIV and working in the same ward of a tertiary care hospital of North India. A higher viral load was reported in the SARS-CoV-2 infected worker wh
Document: People living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PLHIV) are at greater risk of developing prolonged illness due to COVID 19 leading to longer duration of virus shedding owing to their underlying immune defects. The present study compared SARS-CoV-2 infection developing at the same time among two health care workers living with and without a history of HIV and working in the same ward of a tertiary care hospital of North India. A higher viral load was reported in the SARS-CoV-2 infected worker who was immunocompromised as compared to immunocompetent patient (19,193 copies/µL vs 9.4 copies/µL). In this preliminary case report, no difference was observed in the clinical presentation of both patients at the time of diagnosis. Further studies are required to investigate the COVID-19 susceptibility and severity among HIV-infected patients.
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