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

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2020:53:e20200494. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0494-2020. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Child, Preschool
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Contact Tracing
  • Coronavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Diarrhea / diagnosis*
  • Diarrhea / etiology
  • Fever / etiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pandemics*
  • Pharyngitis / etiology
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
  • SARS-CoV-2