Clinical Misdiagnosis of COVID-19 Infection with Confusing Clinical Course

Table 2

Other laboratory findings to rule out different differential diagnosis.

Blood culture	Negative
Peripheral blood smear	Leishman body
Flow cytometry	Blasts 2%
Urine culture	Negative
Bone marrow culture	Negative
Wright	Negative
Coombs-Wright	Negative
2ME	Negative
Widal	Negative
Flow cytometry	Normal
Kala-azar IgG	Negative
Kala-azar IgM	Negative
HIV Ab (<1 nonreactive)	0.1
IgG (Elisa) (295–1156) mg/dl	205
IgM (Elisa) (37–184) mg/dl	18
EBV-CMV	Negative
EBV-IgG (<0.8 nonreactive) U/ml	4.7
EBV-IgM (<9 nonreactive) U/ml	0.1
CMV-IgG (<6 nonreactive) U/ml	0.1
CMV-IgM (<0.8 nonreactive) U/ml	0.1
Malaria-Borrelia	Negative
EMG	Negative
Pleural fluid analysis
Volume	5
Color	Red
Appearance	Turbid
WBC	20	90% (lymphocytes)
		10% (PMN)
RBC	60000
Direct smear	Bacteria were not seen
Pleural fluid culture	No growth after 72 hr