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Review
. 2020 May 11;91(2):184-194.
doi: 10.23750/abm.v91i2.9543.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adolescents: An update on current clinical and diagnostic characteristics

Vincenzo De Sanctis  1 , Leopoldo Ruggiero  2 , Ashraf T Soliman  3 , Shahina Daar  4 , Salvatore Di Maio  5 , Christos Kattamis  6
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Review

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adolescents: An update on current clinical and diagnostic characteristics

Vincenzo De Sanctis et al. Acta Biomed. .

Abstract

The current outbreak of infections with SARS-CoV-2 is defined as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The clinical symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulty that may lead to respiratory distress; a small population of patients may have diarrhea, nausea or vomiting. The highest infection rate occurs in adults; however, neonates, children, and adolescents can also be infected. As the outbreak continues to spread worldwide, attention has switched toward determinants of clinical manifes- tations and disease severity. The situation surrounding the outbreak is rapidly evolving and the information and recommendations are changing as new information becomes available. This paper summarises the cur- rent findings (April 3,2020) from a systematic literature review on the current knowledge of COVID-19 in adolescents (10-19 years according to the WHO definition) and reports the preliminary epidemiological data stated by the Italian National Institute of Health.

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Each author declares that he or she has no commercial associations (e.g. consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangement etc.) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article

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Figure 1.
Total number of COVID-19 cases diagnosed in children (0-9 years) and adolescents (10-19 years) as reported by the Italian Reference Laboratories. [From: Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) bulletin data - 2 April, 2020 and 3 April, 2020 - appendix; modified]
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