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ArticleNew microbes and new infections2021

Reinfection or relapse of COVID-19 in health care workers; case series of 2 patients from Pakistan.

A Ahmed, F Sana, A Ikram, S Yousaf, A Khan

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Article in New microbes and new infections, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

A AhmedDepartment of Pathology, Combined Military Hospital Malir, Karachi, Pakistan.
F SanaDepartment of Pathology, Combined Military Hospital Malir, Karachi, Pakistan.
A IkramNational Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan.
S YousafDepartment of Pathology, Combined Military Hospital Malir, Karachi, Pakistan.
A KhanDepartment of Pathology, Combined Military Hospital Malir, Karachi, Pakistan.
Combined Military Hospital · PKNational Institute of Health · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During an ongoing pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, main question which has arisen in everyone's mind is about the immune response that may protect from reinfection. Coronaviruses are known for short-term immunity. Their ability of mutations enables them to escape host immunity, thus increasing chances of reinfection. Here we report two cases of reinfection among health care workers who presented with symptoms of COVID-19 disease, after 3 months of first infectious course. Such documentations are necessary for epidemiological purposes and also to monitor response of virus on re-exposure.

Indexed as

health care–associated COVID-19 infectionHealth care workerreinfectionSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33996101
PMCPMC8106188
OpenAlexW3161340994

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Registered trials

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