📄 The isolation period should be longer: Lesson from a child infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Chongqing, China.

In December 2019, COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbroke in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, China. The disease rapidly spread to other areas in China due to a huge population movement during the New Year Festival. Here, a 7-year-old child with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Chongqing, outside of Wuhan, Hubei province, was reported. This case suggested that children infected with SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to present milder manifestations than adults. The continuous positive real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay for SARS-CoV-2 in the child's throat swab sample indicated the isolation period for suspected child cases should be longer than 14 days.

keywords 🔗 severe acute (1373) 🔗 syndrome coronavirus (1074) 🔗 transcription-polymerase chain (58) 🔗 reverse transcription (205) 🔗 polymerase chain (300) 🔗 real-time reverse (87) 🔗 reverse transcription-polymerase (55) 🔗 respiratory syndrome (2004) 🔗 acute respiratory (1734) 🔗 throat swab (43) 🔗 chain reaction (303)

download 🔖 [BibTeX]