A suspected case of COVID-19 turned into a confirmed case: a case report

Di Yang; Kai Wei; Xuesong Gao; Yijin Zhang; Ping Gao; Hongjie Li; Xiaomin Liu; Zheng Yuan; Te Xiao; Wenshan Zhao; Xuefei Duan

doi:10.2217/fvl-2020-0030

A suspected case of COVID-19 turned into a confirmed case: a case report

Future Virol. 2020 May;15(6):335-339. doi: 10.2217/fvl-2020-0030.

Authors

Di Yang¹, Kai Wei¹, Xuesong Gao¹, Yijin Zhang¹, Ping Gao¹, Hongjie Li¹, Xiaomin Liu¹, Zheng Yuan¹, Te Xiao¹, Wenshan Zhao¹, Xuefei Duan¹

Affiliation

¹ Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, 8th, Jingshundong Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100015, PR China.

Abstract

COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and discovered in 2019. The clinical manifestations include fever, coughing, difficulty in breathing and even death from multiple organ failure. Nucleic acid test is the golden standard method for confirmation of infection. According to the Chinese 'Seventh Edition of the COVID-19 Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol', suspected patients with negative nucleic acid tests from two consecutive airway specimens can be excluded from diagnosis and released from quarantine. The current report describes a suspected COVID-19 case that had a history of close contact with a COVID-19 patient. The diagnosis was confirmed after the SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid was detected after four sputum sample tests (sampling interval of at least 24 h).

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; case report; confirmed case; suspected case.

Publication types

Case Reports