Heavy Exposure of Children Aged 9-12 Years With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Did Not Lead to Infection

Enno Schmidt; Katja Steinhagen; Jan Rupp

doi:10.1093/jpids/piaa116

Heavy Exposure of Children Aged 9-12 Years With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Did Not Lead to Infection

J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2020 Nov 10;9(5):620-621. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piaa116.

Authors

Enno Schmidt¹, Katja Steinhagen², Jan Rupp^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
² Institute of Experimental Immunology, Euroimmun AG, Lübeck, Germany.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
⁴ German Center for Infection Research, partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Lübeck, Germany.

Abstract

The reason for the apparently lower infection rate of children with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to adults is still unclear. Here, we report on 4 schoolchildren with heavy exposure to SARS-CoV-2 with no clinical signs of coronavirus disease 2019, repeated negative nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, and no seroconversion.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; children; infectiousness; transmission.

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Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus* / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Child
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Family Health*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
SARS-CoV-2