Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2022)

Postvaccination Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adult with No Evidence of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection

  • Young Kyun Choi,
  • Jae Young Moon,
  • Jungok Kim,
  • In Seol Yoo,
  • Geun-Yong Kwon,
  • Heuisoon Bae,
  • Min Seob Song,
  • Sungmin Kym

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2802.211938
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2
pp. 411 – 414

Abstract

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Ten days after receiving the first dose of coronavirus disease vaccine, a 22-year-old woman in South Korea experienced myocarditis, myopathy, pericarditis, and gastroenteritis; rash subsequently developed. There was no evidence of prior infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The diagnosis was multisystem inflammatory syndrome resulting from coronavirus disease vaccination.

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