Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (Aug 2020)

Family COVID-19 cluster analysis of an infant without respiratory symptoms

  • Myrela Conceição Santos de Jesus,
  • Alexandra Giovanna Aragão Lima,
  • Victor Santana Santos,
  • Luciane Moreno Storti-Melo,
  • Tatiana Rodrigues de Moura,
  • Rafaela Windy Farias dos Santos,
  • Cliomar Alves dos Santos,
  • Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho,
  • Luis Eduardo Cuevas,
  • Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0494-2020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53

Abstract

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Abstract Diagnosing cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with only non-respiratory symptoms has been challenging. We reported the diagnosis of a child who tested positive for COVID-19 with abdominal pain/diarrhea and tracked his family cluster. One member of the family tested positive for COVID-19 on real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assay and three other family members had anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

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