Discussion
The WHO pronounces “older people and people of all ages with
pre-existing medical conditions (such as diabetes, high blood pressure,
heart disease, lung disease, or cancer) appear to develop serious
illness more often than others”(1). Our 12-year-old patient who has two
different lung diseases, bronchiolitis obliterans and a bronchial
asthma, which was uncontrolled at the time, contracted the coronavirus.
The boy showed no typical symptoms of a COVID-19 infection such as
fever, dry cough or tiredness. He did not have to use his asthma spray
salbutamol because of dysponea. He only complained about body aches for
one day. Interestingly, the COVID-19 smear was positive for SARS-CoV-2
for more than 3 weeks. In some cases, viral genetic material could be
detected up to 42 days after the onset of symptoms (4). Inhalation
steroids may be the cause of prolonged virus detection, but there is
currently no data on this in literature. Last but not least, it is
interesting that the boy did not infect any other people with the
coronavirus even before being diagnosed, for example in our
consultation.