Lower nasopharyngeal viral loads in pediatric population. The missing piece to understand SARS-CoV-2 infection in children?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.06.009
• Publication Date: 2021-06-13T13:41:01Z
• Authors: Emilio Cendejas-B...; María P. Romero-G...; Luis Escosa-García; Sonia Jiménez-Rod...; Jesús Mingorance; Julio García-Rodr...
• Keywords: Viral infection

SARS-CoV-2 virus infects children but, contrary to other respiratory viruses, tend be asymptomatic or have less symptoms than adults and are rarely the index case in household transmission chains. The aim of this study was compare relative viral loads nasopharyngeal samples from aged 0 17 years with those an adult population. We selected 126 positive children. Relative were measured by RT-PCR comparative ∆Ct method using primers probes targeting gene E human RNAseP. significantly lower population one.