ArticleJournal of medical virology2021
No SARS-CoV-2 carriage observed in children attending daycare centers during the intial weeks of the epidemic in Belgium.
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- SARS-CoV-2 Circulation in the School Setting: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools: An updated living systematic review (version 2; November 2020).Journal of global health · 2021Pooled it
- Risk of infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children and adolescents in households, communities and educational settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2021Pooled it
- What is the evidence for transmission of COVID-19 by children in schools? A living systematic review.Journal of global health · 2020Pooled it
- Limited role of children in transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus in households-Immunological analysis of 26 familial clusters.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2023Article
- Concordance in RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 between samples preserved in viral and bacterial transport medium.Journal of virological methods · 2022Article
- Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Article
- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by children: a rapid review, 30 December 2019 to 10 August 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Review
- Feasibility of SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Testing Among Children and Childcare Workers at German Day Care Centers: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- No SARS-CoV-2 carriage observed in children attending daycare centers during the intial weeks of the epidemic in Belgium.Journal of medical virology · 2021Article
- The role of children in the transmission of SARS-CoV2: updated rapid review.Journal of global health · 2020Review
- The COVID-19 pandemic in children and young people during 2020-2021: Learning about clinical presentation, patterns of spread, viral load, diagnosis and treatment.Journal of global healthArticle
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To gain knowledge about the role of young children attending daycare in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, a random sample of children (n = 84) aged between 6 and 30 months attending daycare in Belgium was studied shortly after the start of the epidemic (February 29th) and before the lockdown (March 18th) by performing in-house SARS-CoV-2 real-time polymerase chain reaction. No asymptomatic carriage of SARS-CoV-2 was detected, whereas common cold symptoms were common (51.2%). Our study shows that in Belgium, there was no sign of early introduction into daycare centers at the moment children being not yet isolated at home, although the virus was clearly circulating. It is clear that more evidence is needed to understand the actual role of young children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and their infection risk when attending daycare.
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