Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022

Authors :: 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
Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar
Source :: Eurosurveillance : European communicable disease bulletin
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), 2022.
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

Subjects :: 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

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