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The Covid did not invent the post-infectious syndrome"
, launches Professor Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Tenon hospital (Paris).
If the phenomenon was brought to light by the health crisis, the existence of symptoms that persist or reappear after an infection is far from being exclusive to Sars-CoV-2.
The mechanisms, however, are not clearly established, and the causes are probably of several kinds.
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“Is there a persistence of the virus or an autonomization of the inflammatory response?
We do not yet know ”,
slips Professor Marc Lecuit, director of the laboratory of research in the biology of infections at the Pasteur Institute and Inserm, and infectious disease specialist at the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital.
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