Vasant Wagh

Department of Community Medicine, Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Demmed to be University) Sawangi (Meghe) Wardha, Maharashtra, India

Publications

  • Review Article   
    Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Reversed RT-PCR Results in Mild or Asymptomatic Patients
    Author(s): Ruchira Chahar, Vasant Wagh, Aditya Dhonde* and Swarupa Chakole

    COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome. COVID-19 was first identified at the end of 2019, and the disease has since spread far and wide, resulting in an on-going pandemic. Patients with COVID-19 presented with a variety of complaints, the most common of which were fever, cough, exhaustion, breathing difficulties, and loss of smell and taste. Patients typically start noticing changes in their health one to fourteen days after infection. Among those who experience changes in their health, the majority (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while (14% develop severe symptoms) (dyspnoea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging) and 5% suffer critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock or multi-organ dysfunction). At least 33% of those infected with this disease a.. Read More»

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