TY - JOUR AU - L’Huillier, Arnaud AU - Torriani, Giulia AU - Pigny, Fiona AU - Kaiser, Laurent AU - Eckerle, Isabella T1 - Culture-Competent SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharynx of Symptomatic Neonates, Children, and Adolescents T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 10 SP - 2494 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Children do not seem to drive transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We isolated culture-competent virus in vitro from 12 (52%) of 23 SARS-CoV-2–infected children; the youngest was 7 days old. Our findings show that symptomatic neonates, children, and teenagers shed infectious SARS-CoV-2, suggesting that transmission from them is plausible. KW - coronavirus disease KW - 2019 novel coronavirus disease KW - COVID-19 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - respiratory diseases KW - zoonoses KW - viruses KW - neonates KW - children KW - adolescents KW - viral shedding KW - Switzerland DO - 10.3201/eid2610.202403 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-2403_article ER - End of Reference