On the 30th of last month (local time), medical staff at a Brazilian hospital are treating patients admitted to the Corona 19 intensive care unit. yunhap news-In Brazil, two types of mutations have been identified that simultaneously infected patients with COVID-19, raising concerns that new mutations will be accelerated.
According to Reuters on the 2nd, researchers at Pivalle University in southern Brazil studied two patients in their 30s who were infected with Corona 19 at the end of November last year, and it was confirmed that they were simultaneously infected with two types of Corona 19, a mutation originating in South Africa and Brazil. .
The contents of the research were published on’Med Archive’, a pre-release site for medical thesis on the 29th, and have not yet been verified by fellow scholars.
The first patient complained of a dry cough, and the second patient complained of symptoms such as cough, sore throat, and headache, and both were not severe and were cured without hospitalization, the researchers said.
The researchers warned that if the two variants coexist in one patient’s body, the production of another variant could be faster.
“These simultaneous infections can lead to a combination of variants and produce new mutations at a faster rate than before,” said Fernando Spielki, a virology researcher at Pivalle University.
“It will be another evolutionary process of the virus,” he stressed.
In addition, this case shows that the virus is outbreaking in Brazil. “It is because simultaneous infection occurs only when the level of spread is severe.”
Earlier, on the 12th of last month (local time), a whopping 18 kinds of mutant Corona 19 were found in one corona19 patient in Russia, Izvestiya and Rianovosti News reported, citing reports from virus infectious disease experts.
As a result of comparing and analyzing samples collected over several months of a female patient infected with Corona 19 while undergoing lymphoma chemotherapy in April last year, it was confirmed that various mutant viruses were produced.
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