Open AccessChanges in Exanthema Subitum Incidence and Patient Age Distribution During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan
Author(s) -
Jun Tachikawa,
Yuta Aizawa,
Tatsuki Ikuse,
Miyako Kon,
Akihiko Saitoh
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.0000000000003430
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , pandemic , covid-19 , coronavirus , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , physics , optics
Incidences of community-acquired infectious diseases other than COVID-19 decreased during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic; however, exanthema subitum incidence before (2016-2019) and during the pandemic (2020) in Niigata, Japan, did not substantially differ, although the proportion of age less than 1-year-old was lower in 2020. These findings suggest that exanthema subitum is transmitted mainly among family members, not in the community.