TRIBUNNEWS.COM, CAPE TOWN- A 36-year-old woman with HIV positive body condition carried the Corona virus for 216 days.
And when the Corona virus was in his body, it was recorded that the virus had mutated more than 30 times.
Reporting from the South China Morning Post from Business Insider, this odd case report was published as a pre-print in the journal medRxiv last Thursday.
The woman, whose name has been withheld, is only 36 years old living in South Africa.
The coronavirus has accumulated 13 mutations in its spike protein, which is the protein the virus uses to evade the body’s immune response.
Furthermore, 19 other mutations that can change the behavior of the virus were also found in the woman’s body.
In total there are 32 mutations produced by the Corona virus in the woman’s body alone.
It remains unclear whether the mutation he carried has been passed on to anyone else.
And if more such cases are found, it’s possible that HIV infection could be a source of new variants because patients can host the virus for a longer time, says Tulio de Oliveira, a geneticist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
However, this case could be the exception rather than the rule for people living with HIV, because prolonged infection occurs in an immunocompromised state or a weakened human immune system, said Dr Juan Ambrosini, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Barcelona.
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