COVID-19 Transmission Within a Family Cluster in Yancheng, China

Hongming Zhang; Runzhe Chen; Jibei Chen; Baoan Chen

doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.00387

COVID-19 Transmission Within a Family Cluster in Yancheng, China

Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 Jul 3:7:387. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00387. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Hongming Zhang¹, Runzhe Chen^{2

3}, Jibei Chen¹, Baoan Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yancheng Third People's Hospital, The Affiliated Yancheng Hospital of Southeast University Medical College, Yancheng, China.
² Department of Hematology and Oncology, Medical School, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
³ Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States.

Abstract

We report the clinical features of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in a family setting of 13 people with person-to-person transmission in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; asymptomatic; family cluster; intimate contact; transmission.

Publication types

Case Reports