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A complete analysis of the epidemiological scenario around a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection: previous infection events and subsequent transmission
Darío García de Viedma
Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital
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Rationale: The first descriptions of reinfection by SARS-CoV-2 have been recently reported. However, these studies focus exclusively on the reinfected case, without considering the epidemiological context of the event.
Objectives: To perform a complete analysis of the sequential infections and transmission events around a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, including the infection events preceding it, the exposure and subsequent transmissions.
Methods: Our analysis was supported by host genetics, viral whole genome sequencing, phylogenomic viral population analysis, and refined epidemiological data obtained from interviews with the involved subjects.
Results: The reinfection involved a 53-year-old woman with asthma (Case A), with a first COVID-19 episode in April-2020 and a much more severe second episode four months and a half later, with COVID-19 seroconversion in August, and requiring hospital admission. An extended genomic analysis allowed us to demonstrate that the strain involved in Case A´s reinfection was circulating in the epidemiological context of Case A and was also transmitted subsequently from Case A to her family context. The reinfection was also supported by a phylogenetic analysis, including 348 strains from Madrid, which revealed that the strain involved in the reinfection was circulating by the time Case A suffered the second episode, August/September-2020, but absent at the time range corresponding to Case A´s first episode.
Conclusion: We present the first complete analysis of the epidemiological scenario around a reinfection by SARS-CoV-2, more severe than the first episode, including three cases preceding the reinfection, the reinfected case per se, and the subsequent transmission to another seven cases.
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COVID-19, reinfection, transmission, epidemiology, genomics
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Supplementary Figure 2: Dated phylogeny of the strains closely related to that found in the second episode of case A. The strain of the case A is marked with a black arrow. The strain belongs to a phylogenetic clade that was not circulating before June 2020 and thus excluding that the strain belongs to the first wave.
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Research Article
A complete analysis of the epidemiological scenario around a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection: previous infection events and subsequent transmission
Darío García de Viedma
Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital
Corresponding Author
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This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Read Full License
Declarations:
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- This study involved human subjects.
- The author confirmed that all appropriate ethical guidelines for the use of human subjects have been followed, any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee review has been obtained, and information about the IRB/ethics committee is included in the manuscript.
- The author has confirmed that all necessary patient/participant consent or assent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived. If the IRB/ethics committee waived the requirement for patient/participant consent or assent, an explanation for the waiver is included in the text.
- This study is a case report.
- The author has confirmed that consent for publication of clinical details and/or clinical images was obtained from the patient/parent/guardian/relative of the patient or waiver of such consent is described in the text.
- The author has confirmed that a statement listing potential conflicts of interest or lack thereof is included in the text.
The most recent version of this article is available here.
Rationale: The first descriptions of reinfection by SARS-CoV-2 have been recently reported. However, these studies focus exclusively on the reinfected case, without considering the epidemiological context of the event.
Objectives: To perform a complete analysis of the sequential infections and transmission events around a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, including the infection events preceding it, the exposure and subsequent transmissions.
Methods: Our analysis was supported by host genetics, viral whole genome sequencing, phylogenomic viral population analysis, and refined epidemiological data obtained from interviews with the involved subjects.
Results: The reinfection involved a 53-year-old woman with asthma (Case A), with a first COVID-19 episode in April-2020 and a much more severe second episode four months and a half later, with COVID-19 seroconversion in August, and requiring hospital admission. An extended genomic analysis allowed us to demonstrate that the strain involved in Case A´s reinfection was circulating in the epidemiological context of Case A and was also transmitted subsequently from Case A to her family context. The reinfection was also supported by a phylogenetic analysis, including 348 strains from Madrid, which revealed that the strain involved in the reinfection was circulating by the time Case A suffered the second episode, August/September-2020, but absent at the time range corresponding to Case A´s first episode.
Conclusion: We present the first complete analysis of the epidemiological scenario around a reinfection by SARS-CoV-2, more severe than the first episode, including three cases preceding the reinfection, the reinfected case per se, and the subsequent transmission to another seven cases.
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