Clinical features and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 in early infants in Japan: A case series and literature review

The clinical picture in early infants with COVID-19 has been described in a limited number of reports, mainly from European countries, United States, and China, but not Japan. Although several reports suggested that early infants can develop more severe COVID-19 disease than older children, risk fac...

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Autores principales: Iijima, Hiroyuki, Funaki, Takanori, Kubota, Mitsuru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8733281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35027300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2021.12.026
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Sumario:The clinical picture in early infants with COVID-19 has been described in a limited number of reports, mainly from European countries, United States, and China, but not Japan. Although several reports suggested that early infants can develop more severe COVID-19 disease than older children, risk factors for severe illness and differences according to nationality or ethnicity remain unclear. We report a case series of 13 infants ≤90 days old with COVID-19 in Japan. All patients had mild outcomes and did not require respiratory support or intensive care.

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