A well infant with coronavirus disease 2019 with high viral load

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 15, 2020, Pages 847-849

  Kam, Kai Qian ^a   Yung, Chee Fu ^a   Cui, Lin ^b   Pin Lin, Raymond Tzer ^b   Mak, Tze Minn ^b   Maiwald, Matthias ^a   Li, Jiahui ^a   Chong, Chia Yin ^a   Nadua, Karen ^a   Hui Tan, Natalie Woon ^a   Thoon, Koh Cheng ^a  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

2019 novel coronavirus; COVID 19; Infant; SARS CoV 2

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; RIBONUCLEASE P; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTACT ISOLATION; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ORF1AB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SORE THROAT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; SEROLOGY; SINGAPORE; VIROLOGY;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SINGAPORE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85082525631     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa201     Document Type: Article

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