BMC Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 22;20(1):698. doi: 10.1186/s12879-020-05419-3.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: A new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has escalated to a pandemic since its first outbreak in Wuhan, China. A small proportion of patients may have difficulty in generating IgM or IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, and little attention has been paid to them.
CASE PRESENTATIONS: We present two cases of confirmed COVID-19 patients and characterize their initial symptoms, chest CT results, medication, and laboratory test results in detail (including RT-PCR, IgM/ IgG, cytokine and blood cell counts).
CONCLUSION: Both of patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia failed to produce either IgM or IgG even 40 to 50 days after their symptoms onset. This work provides evidence demonstrating that at least a small proportion of patients may have difficulty in rapidly gaining immunity against SARS-CoV-2.
PMID:32962655 | PMC:PMC7508244 | DOI:10.1186/s12879-020-05419-3