Evidence of Neutralizing Antibodies Indicating the Cure of Patients Infected with COVID-19 Within one Month of Infection

Abstract

Background:During COVID-19 pandemic a major conflict facing the clinician where to prove cure of the patients.

Aims:The idea of confirming curability is based on clinical evaluation of the symptoms, laboratory investigations, and specific IgM, IgG anti-SARS-CoV2 antibodies.

Patients and Methods:All patients had presented with clinical features of COVID-19 positive PCR attended private clinic doctors consultant in internal medicine and infectious diseases, they did investigations in Lagash land private medical laboratory in Baghdad investigated and screened for COVID-19 by S. ferritin, D-dimer, Complete blood picture and LDH. All were reevaluated in the first month of infection by clinical examination, retesting, and screening for COVID-19 IgM IgG later to prove cure or evidence of viral infection in PCR negative cases.

Results:All patients are of different ages with maximum years affected from adulthood till the age of one hundred years. Male were 170(54.3%) patients and females were 143 (45.7%) total 313 patients (100%). Most are moderate socioeconomic status, with a significant number having comorbidities.

Conclusion:SARS COVID-19 IgM, IgG levels can be used to confirm a cure of the infection