Infants Born to Mothers With a New Coronavirus (COVID-19)

A novel viral respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is responsible for an epidemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in cases in China and worldwide. Four full-term, singleton infants were born to pregnant women who tested positive for C...

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Published in:Frontiers in pediatrics Vol. 8; p. 104
Main Authors: Chen, Yan, Peng, Hua, Wang, Lin, Zhao, Yin, Zeng, Lingkong, Gao, Hui, Liu, Yalan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 16.03.2020
Subjects:
China
clinical course
COVID-19 infected mothers
newborns
Pediatrics
vertical transmission
vertical transmission
clinical course
newborns
COVID-19 infected mothers
China
ISSN:2296-2360, 2296-2360
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Summary:A novel viral respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is responsible for an epidemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in cases in China and worldwide. Four full-term, singleton infants were born to pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19 in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, where the disease was first identified. Of the three infants, for who consent to be diagnostically tested was provided, none tested positive for the virus. None of the infants developed serious clinical symptoms such as fever, cough, diarrhea, or abnormal radiologic or hematologic evidence, and all four infants were alive at the time of hospital discharge. Two infants had rashes of unknown etiology at birth, and one had facial ulcerations. One infant had tachypnea and was supported by non-invasive mechanical ventilation for 3 days. One had rashes at birth but was discharged without parental consent for a diagnostic test. This case report describes the clinical course of four live born infants, born to pregnant women with the COVID-19 infection.
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Reviewed by: Daniel Cooper Payne, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States; Lars Navér, Karolinska Institutet (KI), Sweden
Edited by: Claus Klingenberg, Arctic University of Norway, Norway
This article was submitted to Neonatology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics
These authors have contributed equally to this work
ISSN:2296-2360
2296-2360
DOI:10.3389/fped.2020.00104