Symptomatic Infants Have Higher Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 Viral Loads but Less Severe Disease Than Older Children

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 19;71(16):2305-2306. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa608.

Authors

Philip Zachariah^{1

2}, Katia C Halabi¹, Candace L Johnson^{1

2}, Susan Whitter³, Jorge Sepulveda³, Daniel A Green³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
² Department of Infection Prevention and Control, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Age Factors
COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / virology
Child
Child, Preschool
Humans
Infant
Nasopharynx / virology*
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification
Severity of Illness Index*
Viral Load*
Young Adult