Children account for a small proportion of diagnoses of SARS-CoV-2 infection and do not exhibit greater viral loads than adults

Previous reports have suggested that children are less affected than adults by SARS-CoV-2. We analyzed SARS-CoV-2 diagnoses between February 27, 2020, and March 14, 2020, and mortality among positive patients in Marseille university hospitals. Of 4050 tested individuals, 228 were positive. Deaths oc...

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Autores principales: Colson, Philippe, Tissot-Dupont, Hervé, Morand, Aurélie, Boschi, Céline, Ninove, Laetitia, Esteves-Vieira, Vera, Gautret, Philippe, Brouqui, Philippe, Parola, Philippe, Lagier, Jean-Christophe, Zandotti, Christine, Million, Matthieu, La Scola, Bernard, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32845413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-020-03900-0
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Sumario:Previous reports have suggested that children are less affected than adults by SARS-CoV-2. We analyzed SARS-CoV-2 diagnoses between February 27, 2020, and March 14, 2020, and mortality among positive patients in Marseille university hospitals. Of 4050 tested individuals, 228 were positive. Deaths occurred in 2/99 documented cases (both > 85 year-old). Children were majorly asymptomatic. Incidence increased by 7.4-fold between 1–5 and 45–65 years then decreased. It was significantly lower among 0–1 year- (0%) and 1–5 (1.1%) and 5–10 (3.6%)-year-old children than among subjects > 18 years (6.5%). Viral loads did not differ between children and adults. Children may not contribute significantly to virus circulation.

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