1. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022
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Liesbet Van Heirstraeten, Esra Ekinci, Mathias Smet, Matilda Berkell, Laura Willen, Jasmine Coppens, An Spiessens, Basil Britto Xavier, Christine Lammens, Jan Verhaegen, Pierre Van Damme, Herman Goossens, Philippe Beutels, Veerle Matheeussen, Stefanie Desmet, Heidi Theeten, and Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar
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Omicron ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Epidemiology ,viruses ,fungi ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,COVID-19 ,respiratory tract diseases ,body regions ,Belgium ,Delta ,Child, Preschool ,Virology ,Humans ,Human medicine ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Child ,carriage - Abstract
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 was monitored in nasopharyngeal samples from young children aged 6-30 months attending day-care centres (DCCs) in Belgium from May 2020-February 2022. SARS-CoV-2 carriage among DCC children was only detected from November 2021, after emergence of Delta and Omicron variants, in 9 of the 42 DCCs screened. In only one DCC, two children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the same sampling time point, suggesting limited transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgian DCCs among young children during the studied period. ispartof: EUROSURVEILLANCE vol:27 issue:21 ispartof: location:Sweden status: published
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- 2022
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