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Lessons from Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infections in Children

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The novel coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)in human caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coro-navirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)is currently rampant across the world,causing an international concern for public health emergency.At the time of July,2020,about 8 380 000 confirmed cases and more than 450 000 deaths have been reported worldwide.This is the third out-break of severe coronavirus family after the Middle East respiratory syndrome(MERS)and severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS).Young victims(<12 years)in clinical course and prognosis of pedi-atric COVID-19 appear symptomatically milder than do teenage and adult patients,and many children with asymptomatic infections or showing only mild symptoms may be transmitter as well.Thus,the children with COVID-19 infection deserve more attention.This review is cautiously designed to report the clinical characteristics and symptoms of three kinds of coronaviruses(SARS-CoV,MERS-CoV,and SARS-CoV-2)in children and to summarize some recom-mended tactics to reduce COVID-19 transmission and/or to attain improved prevention in children.

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WU Xiayu、CHEN Shaotian、CHENG Jiaoni、KAN Xiangxu、FAN Dongmei

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School of Life Sciences,Yunnan Normal University,Kunming 650500,Yunnan,China

College of Pharmaceutical Science,Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine,Kunming 650500,Yunnan,China

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution,Kunming Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Kunming 650223,Yunnan,China

Department of Medicine and Nursing,Qujing Qilin Vocational College,Qujing 655000,Yunnan,China

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

31570203

2020

武汉大学自然科学学报(英文版)
武汉大学

武汉大学自然科学学报(英文版)

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影响因子:0.066
ISSN:1007-1202
年,卷(期):2020.25(6)
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