Co-infection of SARS CoV-2 and influenza A in a Pediatric Patient in Germany
Goetz Wehl, Monika Laible, Markus Rauchenzauner
Abstract
In December 2019 a novel coronavirus was firstly encountered in Wuhan/China with a massive outbreak of fatal pneumonia leading to a pandemic declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020 (WHO Dashboard COVID-19. [WHO web site]. Available from: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019), affecting mainly elderly adults with underlying co-morbidities. Clinical course in children below the age of 10 years is considered to be mild or even with subclinical signs (Sinha IP, Ha et al. The Lancet Respiratory medicine 2020;27;S2213-2600(20) 30152-1). We describe a 4 month old infant with co-infection of SARS CoV-2 and influenza A virus.
Topics & Concepts
Subclinical infectionMedicinePandemicOutbreakPneumoniaCoronavirusSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PediatricsVirology2019-20 coronavirus outbreakViral pneumoniaInternal medicineDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesRespiratory viral infections researchSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research