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

Published:2022-05-26 Issue:21 Volume:27 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
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Author:

Van Heirstraeten Liesbet¹,Ekinci Esra²,Smet Mathias¹,Berkell Matilda¹,Willen Laura²,Coppens Jasmine³,Spiessens An³,Xavier Basil Britto¹,Lammens Christine¹,Verhaegen Jan⁴,Van Damme Pierre²,Goossens Herman³¹,Beutels Philippe⁵,Matheeussen Veerle³¹,Desmet Stefanie⁴,Theeten Heidi²,Malhotra-Kumar Surbhi¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

2. Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

3. Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

4. Reference Centre for Pneumococci, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

5. Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

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.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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