Open AccessThe Longest Infectious Virus Shedding in a Child Infected With the G614 Strain of SARS-CoV-2
Author(s) -
Zümrüt Şahbudak Bal,
Aykut Özkul,
Melis Bilen,
Zafer Kurugöl,
Ferda Özkınay
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000003158
Subject(s) - viral shedding , virology , virus , covid-19 , biology , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , disease
COVID-19 spread globally and caused over 97 million cases with more than 2 million deaths. There is still ongoing discussion on the duration of infectious interval SARS-CoV-2 infection. Symptomatic children had longer virus shedding and there are some reports of prolonged infectious virus shedding in adults particularly patients having an immunocompromised status. A missense mutation, D614G, in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, which has emerged as a predominant clade in Europe and is spreading worldwide that can result in higher viral loads in patients. Herein, we described the longest infectious virus shedding in a previously healthy child infected with SARS-CoV-2 expressing spike D614G substitution.