Clinical and Epidemiological Features of a Family Cluster of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection

In a family experiencing coronavirus disease 2019, the parents and 2 children aged 2 and 5 years became infected but the youngest child was not infected. Both children initially shed infectious virus, but cleared the virus after 5 to 6 days in the nasopharynx. However, viral RNA was continuously det...

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Published inJournal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 362 - 365
Main Authors Wolf, Gerhard K, Glueck, Thomas, Huebner, Johannes, Muenchhoff, Maximilian, Hoffmann, Dieter, French, Lars E, Keppler, Oliver T, Protzer, Ulrike
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Oxford University Press 13.07.2020
Subjects
Adult
Betacoronavirus
Brief Report
Child, Preschool
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - pathology
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
COVID-19
Family
Female
Germany - epidemiology
Humans
Infant
Infectious Disease Incubation Period
Male
Nasopharynx - virology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - pathology
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
SARS-CoV-2
Viral Load
Virus Shedding
Germany
COVID-19
gastrointestinal
SARS-CoV-2
children
RNA persistence
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Summary:In a family experiencing coronavirus disease 2019, the parents and 2 children aged 2 and 5 years became infected but the youngest child was not infected. Both children initially shed infectious virus, but cleared the virus after 5 to 6 days in the nasopharynx. However, viral RNA was continuously detected in the children's stool for more than 4 weeks.
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ISSN:2048-7207
2048-7193
2048-7207
DOI:10.1093/jpids/piaa060