A Case of Moderately Severe COVID-19 in a Healthcare Worker in Russia: Virus Isolation and Full Genome Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is probably the most studied one in history from both clinical and molecular-epidemiological perspectives. Nonetheless, data on the correlation between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral genotypes and COVID-19 symptoms caused by them are still scarce. In this report, we present a moderately severe COVID-19 case in a healthcare worker in Moscow, Russia, supplemented with the data on its causative agent's phenotype regarding in vitro and full-genome characterization. The 44-year-old male healthcare worker who had frequent professional contacts with COVID-19 patients was hospitalized with a viral pneumonia diagnosis and soon started to exhibit fever, dry paroxysmal cough, loss of smell, and typical ground-

SUBMITTER: Shchetinin AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8021000 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature