Neonatal late-onset infection with SARS CoV-2

Neonatal late-onset infection with SARS CoV-2 Biomedica. 2020 10 30;40(Supl. 2):44-49 Authors: Baquero H, Venegas Martinez ME, Velandia Forero L, Neira Safi F, Navarro Lechuga E Abstract During the SARS COV-2 pandemic, the vast majority of infected patients are showing symptoms related to lung damage. At pediatric ages, especially newborns, symptoms from other organ systems without respiratory illness could make COVID-19 hard to diagnose. We are reporting three cases of newborns who were attended in the course of the mitigation phase in the emergency service of a maternal hospital in Barranquilla, Colombia, for high temperature and general compromised condition. During their clinical course, they developed gastrointestinal symptoms without showing any respiratory manifestations. They were not epidemiologically linked to a contact suspected to be a COVID-19 case and their mothers had had no respiratory symptoms since the public health emergency in our country was declared 45 days before. The absence of clinical respiratory manifestations in this group of patients with COVID-19 should draw clinicians’ attention to the need to suspect SARS CoV-2 infection in febrile newborns. PMID: 33152187 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Biomedica : Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Biomedica Source Type: research