COVID‐19: Prolonged viral shedding in an HIV patient with literature review of risk factors for prolonged viral shedding and its implications for isolation strategies
Muhammad Yousaf, Mansoor Hameed, Hussam Al Soub, Mohamad Khatib, Wasim Jamal, Mushtaq Ahmad
Abstract
Our work highlights patients at risk of prolonged viral shedding in COVID-19 and its implications for isolation strategies and explores possible solution by PCR-CT value testing (cycle threshold value). We also review the impact of HIV on COVID-19.
Topics & Concepts
Viral sheddingMedicineCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Isolation (microbiology)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)VirologyHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakViral loadImmunologyIntensive care medicineVirusInternal medicineDiseaseBioinformaticsInfectious disease (medical specialty)BiologyOutbreakSARS-CoV-2 detection and testingCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI