COVID-19 Transmission Within a Family Cluster by Presymptomatic Carriers in China

We report a family cluster of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a presymptomatic case. There were 9 family members, including 8 laboratory-confirmed with COVID-19, and a 6-year-old child had no evidence of infection. Among the 8 patients, 1 adult and a 13-month-old infant were asymptomat...

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Autores principales: Qian, Guoqing, Yang, Naibin, Ma, Ada Hoi Yan, Wang, Liping, Li, Guoxiang, Chen, Xueqin, Chen, Xiaomin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32201889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa316
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Sumario:We report a family cluster of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a presymptomatic case. There were 9 family members, including 8 laboratory-confirmed with COVID-19, and a 6-year-old child had no evidence of infection. Among the 8 patients, 1 adult and a 13-month-old infant were asymptomatic, and 1 adult was diagnosed as having severe pneumonia.

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