Co-infection of SARS CoV-2 and influenza A in a Pediatric Patient in Germany

Goetz Wehl; Monika Laible; Markus Rauchenzauner

doi:10.1055/a-1163-7385

Co-infection of SARS CoV-2 and influenza A in a Pediatric Patient in Germany

Klin Padiatr. 2020 Jul;232(4):217-218. doi: 10.1055/a-1163-7385. Epub 2020 May 11.

Authors

Goetz Wehl¹, Monika Laible¹, Markus Rauchenzauner^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Pediatrics, Kaufbeuren-Ostallgäu Hospital Group, Kaufbeuren, Germany.
² Pediatrics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

PMID: 32392591
DOI: 10.1055/a-1163-7385

Abstract

In December 2019 a novel coronavirus was firstly encountered in Wuhan/China with a massive outbreak of fatal pneumonia leading to a pandemic declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020 (WHO Dashboard COVID-19. [WHO web site]. Available from: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019), affecting mainly elderly adults with underlying co-morbidities. Clinical course in children below the age of 10 years is considered to be mild or even with subclinical signs (Sinha IP, Ha et al. The Lancet Respiratory medicine 2020;27;S2213-2600(20) 30152-1). We describe a 4 month old infant with co-infection of SARS CoV-2 and influenza A virus.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coinfection / virology*
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Germany
Humans
Infant
Influenza, Human / diagnosis*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
SARS-CoV-2