SARS-CoV-2 reinfection: report of two cases in Southeast Brazil

ABSTRACT From February 26, 2020 to March 11, 2021, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in 11,439,558 cases and 277,102 deaths in Brazil. Among them, 2,195,130 cases and 63,965 deaths occurred in Sao Paulo State, Southeast Brazil. The recent emergence and rise of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 is of concern because of their higher transmissibility and possible association with more severe disease. Cases of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections have been described since December 2020 in Brazil. This report describes two cases of COVID-19 reinfection, that occurred five and six months after the first infection, during the second wave of the pandemic in Sao Paulo State. Both patients presented mild symptoms in the two COVID-19 episodes and different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 were identified: B.1.1.33 and B.1.1.28 lineages in case 1 and B1.1.128 and P. 2 lineages in case 2.

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Main Authors:	Yu,Ana Lucia Frugis, Liphaus,Bernadete L., Ferreira,Patrícia Marques, Tanamachi,Angela Tiemi, Masuda,Eliana Tiemi, Trevisan,Camila Martins, Lucas,Pamella Cristina de Carvalho, Bugno,Adriana, Carvalhanas,Telma Regina Marques Pinto
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 2021
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652021000100510
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