Clinical characteristics of "re-positive" discharged COVID-19 pneumonia patients in Wuhan, China.

ABSTRACT: To analyze the clinical characteristics of re-positive discharged COVID-19 patients and find distinguishing markers. The demographic features, clinical symptoms, laboratory results, comorbidities, co-infections, treatments, illness severities and chest CT scan results of 267 patients were collected from 1st January to 15th February 2020. COVID-19 was diagnosed by RT-PCR. Clinical symptoms and nucleic acid test results were collected during the 14 days post-hospitalization quarantine. 30 out of 267 COVID-19 patients were detected re-positive during the post-hospitalization quarantine. Re-positive patients could not be distinguished by demographic features, clinical symptoms, laboratory results, comorbidities, co-infections, treatments, chest CT scan results or subsequent clinical symptoms.

SUBMITTER: He S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7562721 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature