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Time to Resolution of Infection in COVID-19 Patients: the Experience of a Tertiary Medical Center in Israel.
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Japanese journal of infectious diseases [Jpn J Infect Dis] 2022 Mar 24; Vol. 75 (2), pp. 144-147. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 31. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- With the spread of coronavirus disease, reports have indicated that young patients are usually asymptomatic with a short convalescence period. The current study compared the time to resolution of infection in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. Seventy-six patients aged 44.4 ± 23.3 years were admitted to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) unit during the study period. Data were collected from patient records. Throat and nasal swabs for COVID-19 were collected for reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Time to resolution of infection was defined as the number of days from the date of the first COVID-19 positive outcome to the second consecutive negative PCR results. Most patients showed COVID-19 signs and symptoms (71.1%) between 1 and 6 days, and the rest were asymptomatic. No association was found between the time to resolution of infection and the presence of COVID-19 signs and symptoms (symptomatic: median [Md] 10.0, 95% confidence interval [CI] 8.4-11.6; asymptomatic: Md 15.0, 95% CI 10.5-15.5; P = 0.54). Age was not correlated with the number of COVID-19 signs and symptoms (r = 0.13, P = 0.37) or with the time to resolution of infection (r = 0.06, P = 0.58). In patients with mild to moderate symptoms, the time to resolution of infection from COVID-19 is not different from that in asymptomatic patients.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1884-2836
- Volume :
- 75
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Japanese journal of infectious diseases
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34470961
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7883/yoken.JJID.2021.215