April 10, 2020
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Clinical presentation of the first five cases of COVID-19 identified in France
Teams from the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at Bichat Hospital (part of the Paris Public Hospital Network/AP-HP) and Bordeaux University Hospital, in cooperation with scientists from the University of Paris, Inserm IAME UMRS-1137 (University of Paris/Inserm/University Sorbonne Paris Nord), the Institut Pasteur, the Hospices Civils de Lyon, the CNRS – UMR 5308, the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, have published a study based on their monitoring of the first five patients diagnosed with COVID-19, admitted to Bichat Hospital and Bordeaux University Hospital. Despite the very limited number of patients, the research, which resulted in a publication in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, led to the identification of three very different types of clinical presentation.