Abstract
We evaluated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA clearance in 22 children. The estimation of positivity at day 14 was 52% for nasopharyngeal swab and 31% for stool samples. These data underline the significance of nasopharyngeal and stoolsample for detecting infected children. Additional studies are needed for transmissibility. © 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 366-369 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | J. Pediatric Infect. Dis. Soc. |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Children
- Coronavirus
- SARS-CoV-2
- Viral RNA shedding
- virus RNA
- Article
- clinical article
- coronavirus disease 2019
- COVID-19 nucleic acid testing
- disease transmission
- fecal oral transmission
- feces
- human
- infant
- nasopharyngeal swab
- reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
- viral clearance
- virus detection
- virus shedding
- virus transmission
- Betacoronavirus
- child
- Coronavirus infection
- epidemiology
- female
- Italy
- male
- metabolism
- nasopharynx
- newborn
- pandemic
- preschool child
- time factor
- virology
- virus pneumonia
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Coronavirus Infections
- Feces
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Nasopharynx
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral
- RNA, Viral
- Time Factors
- Virus Shedding