Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022

Presence of SARS-CoV-2 was monitored in nasopharyngeal samples from young children aged 6−30 months attending day-care centres (DCCs) in Belgium from May 2020−February 2022. SARS-CoV-2 carriage among DCC children was only detected from November 2021, after emergence of Delta and Omicron variants, in...

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Autores principales: Van Heirstraeten, Liesbet, Ekinci, Esra, Smet, Mathias, Berkell, Matilda, Willen, Laura, Coppens, Jasmine, Spiessens, An, Xavier, Basil Britto, Lammens, Christine, Verhaegen, Jan, Van Damme, Pierre, Goossens, Herman, Beutels, Philippe, Matheeussen, Veerle, Desmet, Stefanie, Theeten, Heidi, Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2022
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9137273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35620998
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.21.2200380
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Sumario:Presence of SARS-CoV-2 was monitored in nasopharyngeal samples from young children aged 6−30 months attending day-care centres (DCCs) in Belgium from May 2020−February 2022. SARS-CoV-2 carriage among DCC children was only detected from November 2021, after emergence of Delta and Omicron variants, in 9 of the 42 DCCs screened. In only one DCC, two children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the same sampling time point, suggesting limited transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgian DCCs among young children during the studied period.

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