Symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 reinfection of a healthcare worker in a Belgian nosocomial outbreak despite primary neutralizing antibody response Universiteit Antwerpen Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Background. It is currently unclear whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfection will remain a rare event, only occurring in individuals who fail to mount an effective immune response, or whether it will occur more frequently when humoral immunity wanes following primary infection. Methods. A case of reinfection was observed in a Belgian nosocomial outbreak involving 3 patients and 2 healthcare workers. To ...