Unveiling Long COVID-19 Disease
Vicente Soriano 1, Pilar Ganado-Pinilla 2, Miguel Sánchez-Santos 3, Pablo Barreiro 4
1 UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain; 2 UNIR Medical Center and Health Sciences School, Madrid, Spain; 3 Doce de Octubre University Hospital, Madrid, Spain; 4 Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Carlos III-La Paz University Hospital. Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: Miguel Sánchez-Santos, Email not available
Abstract
The clinical spectrum of “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus type 2” (SARS-CoV-2) infection is wider than initially thought. The coronavirus does not establish a chronic cellular infection, in contrast with HIV or the hepatitis B virus, that keeps their genomes, respectively, as proviruses integrated within the chromosomes or as episomes (Soriano et al. J Antimicrob Chemother 2014).
