Infants Younger Than 6 Months Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Show the Highest Respiratory Viral Loads
Abstract:
There is a paucity of reports on the characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in infants, because most studies have grouped infants with older children. We analyzed the viral loads of 45318 SARS-CoV-2-positive nasopharyngeal swab samples obtained in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Infants younger than 6 months presented higher viral loads than any other age group. Children older than 6 months showed significantly lower viral loads, similar to those founds in adults. This observation raises new questions regarding the role of infants in the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Año de publicación:
2022
Keywords:
- CoV
- Viral load
- covid
- SARS
- 19
- CHILDREN
- 2
Fuente:
scopus
Tipo de documento:
Article
Estado:
Acceso abierto
Áreas de conocimiento:
- Infección
- Epidemiología
Áreas temáticas:
- Ginecología, obstetricia, pediatría, geriatría
- Enfermedades
- Medicina forense; incidencia de enfermedades
Contribuidores:
Sananes I.C.D.S.
Laufer N.
Cassime R.
Speroni M.
Salvatori M.
Di Diego García F.
Carobene M.
Baquero L.
Geffner J.
Ramirez E.
Berini C.
Ceballos A.
Remes Lenicov F.
Mazzitelli I.
Díaz F.E.
Czernikier A.
Biglione M.
Varese A.
Azzolina S.
Ghiglione Y.
Valeria Ochoa
Leicaj L.
Flichman D.
Giannone D.
Vecchione B.C.D.S.
Adamczyk A.
Fentini M.C.
Penas F.
Melucci Ganzarain C.
Gonzalez Polo V.
Cevallos C.
Paletta A.
Seery V.
Cabrerizo G.
Benencio P.
Turk G.
Vera Aguilar D.
Arruvito L.
Cassime S.
Polo L.
Montesano F.
Pippo M.
SabattCrossed D Sign© J.
Ostrowski M.
Pieralisi A.
Quiroga F.
Delpino V.
Gatti R.
Lopez Malizzia A.
Longueira Y.
Gómez C.
Piccardo C.
Morando N.
Bleichmar L.
Elizalde M.
Ducasa N.
PCrossed D Sign©rez P.
Pampuro S.
Pando M.