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COVID-19 screening in a Portuguese pediatric population

OBJECTIVE: To assess the characteristics of suspected coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and the rate of confirmed COVID-19 in a pediatric population at the beginning of the pandemic in Portugal. STUDY DESIGN: Suspected COVID-19 pediatric cases that were tested in a Portuguese hospital between March...

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Autores principales: Costa, Adriana, Almeida, Helena, Moniz, Marta, Alves, Cláudio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34991850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eimce.2020.09.006
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author Costa, Adriana
Almeida, Helena
Moniz, Marta
Alves, Cláudio
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description OBJECTIVE: To assess the characteristics of suspected coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and the rate of confirmed COVID-19 in a pediatric population at the beginning of the pandemic in Portugal. STUDY DESIGN: Suspected COVID-19 pediatric cases that were tested in a Portuguese hospital between March 17 and April 2 2020 were included in this descriptive retrospective study. The analyzed data included socio-demographic parameters, characteristics of the household, underlying medical conditions and symptoms. RESULTS: Ninety-four patients were included and all of them were symptomatic and treated without hospitalization. The most common symptoms were cough (80%;n = 75), rhinorrhea (72%;n = 68) and fever (60%;n = 56). There was only one positive for SARS-CoV-2 in a five-year-old child with mild illness without epidemiologic linkage. CONCLUSION: This study showed a low rate of confirmed COVID-19 in children. The causes for this low rate can be multifactorial and illustrates how differently this virus spreads in the pediatric population.
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spelling pubmed-87218832022-01-03 COVID-19 screening in a Portuguese pediatric population Costa, Adriana Almeida, Helena Moniz, Marta Alves, Cláudio Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed) Br*ief Report OBJECTIVE: To assess the characteristics of suspected coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and the rate of confirmed COVID-19 in a pediatric population at the beginning of the pandemic in Portugal. STUDY DESIGN: Suspected COVID-19 pediatric cases that were tested in a Portuguese hospital between March 17 and April 2 2020 were included in this descriptive retrospective study. The analyzed data included socio-demographic parameters, characteristics of the household, underlying medical conditions and symptoms. RESULTS: Ninety-four patients were included and all of them were symptomatic and treated without hospitalization. The most common symptoms were cough (80%;n = 75), rhinorrhea (72%;n = 68) and fever (60%;n = 56). There was only one positive for SARS-CoV-2 in a five-year-old child with mild illness without epidemiologic linkage. CONCLUSION: This study showed a low rate of confirmed COVID-19 in children. The causes for this low rate can be multifactorial and illustrates how differently this virus spreads in the pediatric population. Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022-01 2022-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8721883/ /pubmed/34991850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eimce.2020.09.006 Text en © 2020 Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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