Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Neonates and Children From China: A Review
At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus began to spread in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The confirmed cases increased nationwide rapidly, in part due to the increased population mobility during the Chinese Lunar New Year festival. The World Health Organization (WHO) subsequently named the novel cor...
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Published in | Frontiers in pediatrics Vol. 8; p. 287 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
Frontiers Media S.A
15.05.2020
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Summary: | At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus began to spread in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The confirmed cases increased nationwide rapidly, in part due to the increased population mobility during the Chinese Lunar New Year festival. The World Health Organization (WHO) subsequently named the novel coronavirus pneumonia Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and named the virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Soon, transmission from person to person was confirmed and the virus spread to many other countries. To date, many cases have been reported in the pediatric age group, most of which were from China. The management and treatment strategies have also been improved, which we believe would be helpful to pediatric series in other countries as well. However, the characteristics of neonatal and childhood infection still have not been evaluated in detail. This review summarizes the current understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection in neonates and children from January 24 to May 1, as an experience from China. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 Edited by: Christoph Aebi, University Children's Hospital Bern, Switzerland This article was submitted to Pediatric Infectious Diseases, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics Reviewed by: Robindra Basu Roy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Guillermo Soza, University of La Frontera, Chile |
ISSN: | 2296-2360 2296-2360 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fped.2020.00287 |