Presence and Duration of Symptoms in Febrile Infants With and Without SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Son H McLaren; Peter S Dayan; Philip Zachariah; Teresa A McCann; Tamar R Lubell

doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000002858

Presence and Duration of Symptoms in Febrile Infants With and Without SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Nov;39(11):e372-e374. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002858.

Authors

Son H McLaren¹, Peter S Dayan¹, Philip Zachariah², Teresa A McCann³, Tamar R Lubell¹

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine.
² Division of Infectious Diseases.
³ Division of Critical Care and Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.

PMID: 33075219
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002858

Abstract

The clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young infants is not well understood. In this prospective cohort study, we compared the presence and duration of symptoms in febrile infants ≤60 days with (n = 7) and without (n = 16) SARS-CoV-2 infection. Overall, we observed overlapping symptoms and duration of illness, with longer length of cough and nasal congestion among the SARS-CoV-2-positive infants.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Cohort Studies
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / physiopathology*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Cough / physiopathology
Cough / virology
Fever / physiopathology*
Fever / virology*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / physiopathology*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Prospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2