A Preliminary Report of COVID-19 in Children in India

We describe the profile of COVID-19 in children from India in this multicentre observational study from tertiary care hospitals in West Bengal. Data of children up to 12 years presenting with positive results on SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test were included. The median (IQR) age of the 41 patients included w...

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Sourav, Guha, Aritra, Das, Avishikta, Nandi, Mousami, Mondal, Rakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2020
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32729849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-2004-6
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Guha, Aritra
Das, Avishikta
Nandi, Mousami
Mondal, Rakesh
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description We describe the profile of COVID-19 in children from India in this multicentre observational study from tertiary care hospitals in West Bengal. Data of children up to 12 years presenting with positive results on SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test were included. The median (IQR) age of the 41 patients included was 1 (0.42-5.0) year. Eleven (26.8%) patients, including 6 neonates, never showed any symptoms. Fever was seen in only 9 patients (21%), and co-morbities were found in 61% of patients. There was one death.
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spelling pubmed-76054892020-11-03 A Preliminary Report of COVID-19 in Children in India Banerjee, Sourav Guha, Aritra Das, Avishikta Nandi, Mousami Mondal, Rakesh Indian Pediatr Research Letter We describe the profile of COVID-19 in children from India in this multicentre observational study from tertiary care hospitals in West Bengal. Data of children up to 12 years presenting with positive results on SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test were included. The median (IQR) age of the 41 patients included was 1 (0.42-5.0) year. Eleven (26.8%) patients, including 6 neonates, never showed any symptoms. Fever was seen in only 9 patients (21%), and co-morbities were found in 61% of patients. There was one death. Springer India 2020-07-28 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7605489/ /pubmed/32729849 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-2004-6 Text en © Indian Academy of Pediatrics 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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