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. 2022 Feb;111(2):272-274.
doi: 10.1111/apa.16166. Epub 2021 Nov 11.

Characteristics of COVID-19 patients up to 6 months of age admitted to a paediatric emergency department

Tommaso Bellini  1 , Gioacchino Andrea Rotulo  2   3 , Samuele Caruggi  1   3 , Sabina Carta  1   3 , Irene Bonato  1   3 , Emanuela Piccotti  1
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Characteristics of COVID-19 patients up to 6 months of age admitted to a paediatric emergency department

Tommaso Bellini et al. Acta Paediatr. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

Very young age could be a potential risk factor for community-acquired severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, due to immature immune systems. We retrospectively enrolled 39 infants up to 6 months of age who had presented to our tertiary Italian children's hospital emergency room between 9 March 2020 and 8 March 2021 and tested positive for the virus. Of those, 38 had a non-specific mild or asymptomatic clinical course and only one patient was admitted to intensive care with severe symptoms. We concluded that very young infants with COVID-19 had a generally favourable disease course.

Keywords: asymptomatic; disease course; emergency room; infants; pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Inclusion and exclusion flow chart for the patients who tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Distribution and clinical presentations of symptoms in the patients who tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2. The various coloured circles show the distribution and overlap of the symptoms, and the letters identify the resulting clinical presentations
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