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- Title
Clinical and Epidemiological Features of a Family Cluster of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection.
- Authors
Wolf, Gerhard K; Glueck, Thomas; Huebner, Johannes; Muenchhoff, Maximilian; Hoffmann, Dieter; French, Lars E; Keppler, Oliver T; Protzer, Ulrike
- Abstract
In a family experiencing coronavirus disease 2019, the parents and 2 children aged 2 and 5 years became infected but the youngest child was not infected. Both children initially shed infectious virus, but cleared the virus after 5 to 6 days in the nasopharynx. However, viral RNA was continuously detected in the children's stool for more than 4 weeks.
- Subjects
FECAL analysis; CORONAVIRUS diseases; FAMILIES; NASOPHARYNX; PARENTS; ADULT respiratory distress syndrome; RNA; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2020, Vol 9, Issue 3, p362
- ISSN
2048-7193
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jpids/piaa060