COVID‐19 epidemic: Disease characteristics in children

In mid‐December 2019, a disease caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2, which began in Wuhan, China, has spread throughout the country and many countries around the world. The number of children with coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) has also increased significant...

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Published inJournal of Medical Virology Vol. 92; no. 7; pp. 747 - 754
Main Authors She, Jiatong, Liu, Lanqin, Liu, Wenjun
Format Journal Article Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2020
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Subjects
Adolescent
Age Factors
Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification
Betacoronavirus - pathogenicity
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
China - epidemiology
Clinical Laboratory Techniques - methods
Coronaviridae
Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - physiopathology
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Epidemics
epidemiological characteristics
Epidemiology
Female
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infectious Disease Incubation Period
Male
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral - diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - physiopathology
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
Respiratory diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Review
Reviews
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Severity of Illness Index
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Viral diseases
Virology
China
COVID-19
epidemiological characteristics
SARS-CoV-2
children
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Summary:In mid‐December 2019, a disease caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2, which began in Wuhan, China, has spread throughout the country and many countries around the world. The number of children with coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) has also increased significantly. Although information regarding the epidemiology of COVID‐19 in children has accumulated, relevant comprehensive reports are lacking. The present article reviews the epidemiological characteristics of COVID‐19 in children.
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ISSN:0146-6615
1096-9071
DOI:10.1002/jmv.25807