Reinfection rates among patients previously infected by SARS-CoV-2: systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Mao, W Wang, J Ma, S Wu, F Sun - Chinese Medical Journal, 2022 - mednexus.org
Background: Asymptomatic or symptomatic infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can be followed by reinfection. The protection conferred by …

[HTML][HTML] Disease severity during SARS-COV-2 reinfection: a nationwide study

AA Mensah, J Lacy, J Stowe, G Seghezzo… - Journal of Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective We aimed to look at the burden of disease caused by SARS-COV-2 reinfections
and identified potential risk factors for disease severity. Methods We used national …

Antibody titers and protection against a SARS-CoV-2 infection

C Dimeglio, F Herin, G Martin-Blondel… - Journal of …, 2022 - journalofinfection.com
Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study was approved by the Khyber Medical
University (KMU) Ethical Committee. Due to retrospective nature of our analysis, we were …

Quantifying the risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 reinfection over time

EO Murchu, P Byrne, PG Carty… - Reviews in medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite over 140 million SARS‐CoV‐2 infections worldwide since the beginning of the
pandemic, relatively few confirmed cases of SARS‐CoV‐2 reinfection have been reported …

Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 re-infection of a health care worker in a Belgian nosocomial outbreak despite primary neutralizing antibody response

P Selhorst, S Van Ierssel, J Michiels, J Mariën… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background It is currently unclear whether SARS-CoV-2 re-infection will remain a rare event,
only occurring in individuals who fail to mount an effective immune response, or whether it …

The importance and challenges of identifying SARS-CoV-2 reinfections

A Babiker, CE Marvil, JJ Waggoner… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Reports of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfection have
raised important questions about the strength and durability of the immune response to …

[HTML][HTML] Definitions for coronavirus disease 2019 reinfection, relapse and PCR re-positivity

D Yahav, D Yelin, I Eckerle, CS Eberhardt… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2021 - Elsevier
By the beginning of November 2020, almost 50 million cases of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) had been reported worldwide, with over 35 million people defined as recovering …

Reinfection rates among patients who previously tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cohort study

MM Sheehan, AJ Reddy… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Protection afforded from prior disease among patients with coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) infection is unknown. If infection provides substantial long-lasting …

Long-term persistence of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses after infection and estimates of the duration of protection

EHY Lau, DSC Hui, OTY Tsang, WH Chan… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The duration of immunity in SARS-CoV-2 infected people remains unclear.
Neutralizing antibody responses are the best available correlate of protection against re …

Evidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 reinfection after recovery from mild coronavirus disease 2019

JS Lee, SY Kim, TS Kim, KH Hong… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Positive results from real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction
(rRT-PCR) in recovered patients raise concern that patients who recover from coronavirus …