Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Febrile Infants Without Respiratory Distress

Michal Paret; Jennifer Lighter; Rebecca Pellett Madan; Vanessa N Raabe; Gail F Shust; Adam J Ratner

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa452

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Febrile Infants Without Respiratory Distress

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 19;71(16):2243-2245. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa452.

Authors

Michal Paret¹, Jennifer Lighter¹, Rebecca Pellett Madan¹, Vanessa N Raabe^{1

2}, Gail F Shust¹, Adam J Ratner^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

We report 2 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (COVID-19) in infants presenting with fever in the absence of respiratory distress who required hospitalization for evaluation of possible invasive bacterial infections. The diagnoses resulted from routine isolation and real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction-based testing for SARS-CoV-2 for febrile infants in an outbreak setting.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; children; fever; pediatric.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
Dyspnea / virology
Fever / virology*
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Nasopharynx / virology
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn
SARS-CoV-2