Coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19) : a case report, the first patient in Thailand and outside China
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Coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19): a case report, the first patient in Thailand and outside China.Coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19) was identified in China on December 2019 and the fastest emerging infectious disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, has become a worldwide pandemic and serious public health concern. The symptoms of COVID-19 are vary widely from asymptomatic disease to pneumonia and life-threatening complications, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, multisystem organ failure and death. The current management mainly are supportive care. Bamrasnaradura Infectious diseases Institute (BIDI) is the first hospital in Thailand that had prepared to isolate and quarantine all of the COVID-19 patients.
This is a case report of the first patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 in Thailand and outside China. She is Chinese tourist, was detected high-grade fever at Suvarnabhumi airport and transferred to admit at BIDI airborne infection isolation room (AIIR). Her symptom was flu- like illness, after we followed her chest radiography revealed abnormal reticulopatchy infiltration at peripheral right upper lung region but she had no pneumonia symptom. Her clinically improved without specific drug and her oropharyngeal swab had return to be undetectable and discharged.
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