Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Febrile Infants Without Respiratory Distress.

Paret, Michal; Lighter, Jennifer; Pellett Madan, Rebecca; Raabe, Vanessa N; Shust, Gail F; Ratner, Adam J · Clin Infect Dis · 2020

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We report 2 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (COVID-19) in infants presenting with fever in the absence of respiratory distress who required hospitalization for evaluation of possible invasive bacterial infections. The diagnoses resulted from routine isolation and real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction-based testing for SARS-CoV-2 for febrile infants in an outbreak setting.

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