Fecal-Oral Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 In Children: is it Time to Change Our Approach?

Starting from 2 pediatric cases of COVID-19, with confirmation at nasopharyngeal and rectal swabs, we considered the lesson learnt from previous Coronavirus epidemics and reviewed evidence on the current outbreak. Surveillance with rectal swabs might be extended to infants and children, for the impl...

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Autores principales: Donà, Daniele, Minotti, Chiara, Costenaro, Paola, Da Dalt, Liviana, Giaquinto, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Williams & Wilkins 2020
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32304466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000002704
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author Donà, Daniele
Minotti, Chiara
Costenaro, Paola
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description Starting from 2 pediatric cases of COVID-19, with confirmation at nasopharyngeal and rectal swabs, we considered the lesson learnt from previous Coronavirus epidemics and reviewed evidence on the current outbreak. Surveillance with rectal swabs might be extended to infants and children, for the implications for household contacts and isolation timing.
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spelling pubmed-72790532020-06-29 Fecal-Oral Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 In Children: is it Time to Change Our Approach? Donà, Daniele Minotti, Chiara Costenaro, Paola Da Dalt, Liviana Giaquinto, Carlo Pediatr Infect Dis J Brief Reports Starting from 2 pediatric cases of COVID-19, with confirmation at nasopharyngeal and rectal swabs, we considered the lesson learnt from previous Coronavirus epidemics and reviewed evidence on the current outbreak. Surveillance with rectal swabs might be extended to infants and children, for the implications for household contacts and isolation timing. Williams & Wilkins 2020-04-16 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7279053/ /pubmed/32304466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000002704 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
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