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Emerging Microbes & Infections Volume 9, 2020 - Issue 1
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Letter

Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient

Wisit Prasitsirikula Department of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, ThailandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-4050
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Krit Pongpirulb Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand;c Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Wannarat A. Pongpirula Department of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, ThailandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9981-1190
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Nayot Panitantuma Department of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, Thailand
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Anuttra C. Ratnarathona Department of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, Thailand
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Thiravat Hemachudhad Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training on Viral Zoonoses, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Pages 1354-1355 | Received 27 Feb 2020, Accepted 22 May 2020, Published online: 15 Jun 2020
 
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ABSTRACT

We report a 35-year-old female nurse who possibly received the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the blood sampling of a 35-year-old male patient initially suspected as a dengue infection. The patient had mild thrombocytopenia and positive dengue IgG and IgM whereas the clinicians were not aware of the possibility of false-positive dengue serology revealed in the published case report from Singapore. The nurse put on a pair of gloves but did not wear a mask during the only encounter with this patient. This nosocomial transmission raised a safety concern among healthcare professionals in an area with a relatively low Covid-19 prevalence, especially when the clinical and laboratory characteristics could be confused with other viral infections.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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