COVID-19 infections in infants

The study aimed to analyse the clinical course of COVID-19 in 300 infants, selected from 1283 children diagnosed with COVID-19 between March and December 2020, registered in the SARSTerPED multicenter database. Most of the infants were registered in October and November 2020. 44% of the group were g...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2022-05, Vol.12 (1), p.7765-7765, Article 7765
Main Authors: Sobolewska-Pilarczyk, Małgorzata, Pokorska-Śpiewak, Maria, Stachowiak, Anna, Marczyńska, Magdalena, Talarek, Ewa, Ołdakowska, Agnieszka, Kucharek, Izabela, Sybilski, Adam, Mania, Anna, Figlerowicz, Magdalena, Mazur-Melewska, Katarzyna, Potocka, Paulina, Sulik, Artur, Hasiec, Barbara, Stani, Martyna, Frańczak-Chmura, Paulina, Szczepańska, Barbara, Pałyga-Bysiecka, Ilona, Ciechanowski, Przemysław, Łasecka-Zadrożna, Joanna, Zaleska, Izabela, Szenborn, Leszek, Dryja, Urszula, Kuchar, Ernest, Niedźwiecka, Sławomira, Kalicki, Bolesław, Flisiak, Robert, Pawłowska, Małgorzata
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Language:English
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Appetite
Catarrh
Child
Children
Coronaviruses
Cough
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 diagnostic tests
COVID-19 Testing
Disease transmission
Eating disorders
Female
Fever
Households
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Infant
Infants
Interleukin 6
Male
multidisciplinary
Oxygen
Pandemics
Pneumonia
SARS-CoV-2
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
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Summary:The study aimed to analyse the clinical course of COVID-19 in 300 infants, selected from 1283 children diagnosed with COVID-19 between March and December 2020, registered in the SARSTerPED multicenter database. Most of the infants were registered in October and November 2020. 44% of the group were girls, and 56% were boys. At diagnosis, the most common symptoms were fever in 77% of the children, cough in 40%, catarrh in 37%. Pneumonia associated with COVID-19 was diagnosed in 23% of the children, and gastrointestinal symptoms in 31.3%. In 52% of the infants, elevated levels of D-dimers were observed, and in 40%, elevated levels of IL-6 serum concentration were observed. During the second wave of the pandemic, 6 times more infants were hospitalized, and the children were statistically significantly younger compared to the patients during the first wave (3 months vs 8 months, p  
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-11068-0