{"id":6887,"date":"2020-01-24T19:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:07:38","slug":"2019-ncov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/es\/2019-ncov\/","title":{"rendered":"Definici\u00f3n de Caso de Infecci\u00f3n por Coronavirus (Covid-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"7ca9444b8380138fe077da07353677a4\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>El Covid-19 identificado en China es una nueva cepa de coronavirus que hasta el momento no se hab\u00eda identificado en humanos.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Los signos habituales de la infecci\u00f3n incluyen s\u00edntomas respiratorios, fiebre, tos, dolor muscular y dificultad para respirar, informa la OMS. En casos m\u00e1s graves, puede causar una neumon\u00eda mortal.<\/p>\n<p>El periodo de incubaci\u00f3n puede ser de entre una semana y 10 d\u00edas, por lo que los s\u00edntomas pueden tardar en aparecer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definici\u00f3n de caso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caso sospechoso<\/strong><br \/>\nUn caso sospechoso es:<br \/>\nA. un paciente con enfermedad respiratoria aguda (es decir, fiebre y al menos un signo o s\u00edntoma de enfermedad respiratoria, por ejemplo, tos o dificultad para respirar) <strong>Y<\/strong> sin otra etiolog\u00eda que explique completamente la presentaci\u00f3n cl\u00ednica <strong>Y<\/strong> una historia de viaje a o residencia en un pa\u00eds, \u00e1rea o territorio que ha informado la transmisi\u00f3n local de la enfermedad Covid-19 durante los 14 d\u00edas anteriores al inicio de los s\u00edntomas;<br \/>\n<strong>O<\/strong><br \/>\nB. un paciente con alguna enfermedad respiratoria aguda <strong>Y<\/strong> que haya estado en contacto con un caso confirmado o probable de enfermedad Covid-19 durante los 14 d\u00edas anteriores al inicio de los s\u00edntomas;<br \/>\n<strong>O<\/strong><br \/>\nC. un paciente con infecci\u00f3n respiratoria aguda grave (es decir, fiebre y al menos un signo o s\u00edntoma de enfermedad respiratoria, por ejemplo, tos o dificultad para respirar) <strong>Y<\/strong> que requiere hospitalizaci\u00f3n <strong>Y<\/strong> que no tiene otra etiolog\u00eda que explique completamente la presentaci\u00f3n cl\u00ednica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caso Probable:<\/strong><br \/>\nUn caso probable es un caso sospechoso para quien el informe de las pruebas de laboratorio para el virus Covid-19 no es concluyente.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caso confirmado:<\/strong><br \/>\nToda persona con laboratorio confirmado de Covid-19 independientemente de cualquier signo o s\u00edntoma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliograf\u00eda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Surveillance case definitions for human infection with novel coronavirus (nCoV) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications-detail\/global-surveillance-for-human-infection-with-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(OMS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hui DS, I Azhar E, Madani TA, et al. The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health &#8211; The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. Int J Infect Dis. 2020;91:264\u2013266. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31953166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chen Y, Liu Q, Guo D. Coronaviruses: genome structure, replication, and pathogenesis. J Med Virol. 2020;10.1002\/jmv.25681. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31967327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Li Q, Guan X, Wu P, et al. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia. N Engl J Med. 2020;10.1056\/NEJMoa2001316. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31995857\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Creado Ene 24, 2020.<br \/>\nActualizado Mar 16, 2020<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Covid-19 identificado en China es una nueva cepa de coronavirus que hasta el momento no se hab\u00eda identificado en humanos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[316,315,2123,2146,314,352,2125,267,2127,985,2126,311],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-case","tag-caso","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-definicion","tag-definitions","tag-human","tag-infection","tag-ncov","tag-neumonia","tag-novel","tag-surveillance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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