Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Patient With Non-hodgkin Lymphoma: Intra-Host Genomic Diversity Analysis

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic, threatening global public health. Several cases of persistent infection have been described, but there are few reports that compared the genetic variability among samples collected from the patient during infection. In the current study, we reported a viral genetic analysis of a diabetic male patient with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma affected by persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection. We sequenced the patient-derived viral isolated both from oro/nasopharyngeal swab and VeroE6 cell line, collected from the same patient at different points of the infection. Due to the insufficient material of the second swab received, in…