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Secondary household transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 among children and adolescents: Clinical and epidemiological aspects

Eliane Terezinha Afonso, Solomar Martins Marques, Lusmaia Damaceno Camargo Costa, Patrícia Marques Fortes, Fernanda Aparecida de Oliveira Peixoto, Daniélli C. Bichuetti-Silva, Natália D. Aredes, Claci Fátima Weirich Rosso, Faétila dos Santos Oliveira, Fabíola Souza Fiaccadori,

Pediatric Pulmonology · 2021 · 21 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Our results contribute to the hypothesis that children and adolescents are not important sources of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the home environment during a period of social distancing and school closure; even though they are susceptible to infection in the household (around ¼ of our study population).

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