RESUMEN
We report a familial cluster of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to assess its potential transmission during the incubation period. The first patient in this familial cluster was identified during the presymptomatic period, as a close contact of a confirmed patient. Five family members had close contact with this first patient during his incubation period, with four of them confirmed positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the subsequent sampling tests.
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Betacoronavirus , Infecciones por Coronavirus/transmisión , Periodo de Incubación de Enfermedades Infecciosas , Neumonía Viral/transmisión , Adulto , Anciano , COVID-19 , Niño , Familia , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pandemias , SARS-CoV-2RESUMEN
We report an asymptomatic child who was positive for a coronavirus by reverse transcription PCR in a stool specimen 17 days after the last virus exposure. The child was virus positive in stool specimens for at least an additional 9 days. Respiratory tract specimens were negative by reverse transcription PCR.
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Betacoronavirus/aislamiento & purificación , Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico , Heces/virología , Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico , ARN Viral/aislamiento & purificación , COVID-19 , Niño , Humanos , Masculino , Pandemias , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa , SARS-CoV-2RESUMEN
We report a 2-family cluster of persons infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the city of Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China, during January 2020. The infections resulted from contact with an infected but potentially presymptomatic traveler from the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province.