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Editor, Senior Moderator
Clin Infect Dis
. 2020 May 30;ciaa673.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa673. Online ahead of print.
Detectable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Human Breast Milk of a Mildly Symptomatic Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Patrick C K Tam[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kathleen M Ly[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Max L Kernich[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Nicola Spurrier[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Diana Lawrence[SUP] 5 [/SUP], David L Gordon[SUP] 1 2 4 [/SUP], Emily C Tucker[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
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Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus and causative pathogen to the pandemic illness COVID-19. Although RNA has been detected in various clinical samples, no reports to date have documented SARS-CoV-2 in human milk. This case report describes an actively breastfeeding patient with COVID-19 infection with detectable viral RNA in human milk.
Keywords: COVID-19; Human milk; SARS-CoV-2; breastfeeding.
. 2020 May 30;ciaa673.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa673. Online ahead of print.
Detectable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Human Breast Milk of a Mildly Symptomatic Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Patrick C K Tam[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kathleen M Ly[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Max L Kernich[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Nicola Spurrier[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Diana Lawrence[SUP] 5 [/SUP], David L Gordon[SUP] 1 2 4 [/SUP], Emily C Tucker[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32472683
- DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa673
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus and causative pathogen to the pandemic illness COVID-19. Although RNA has been detected in various clinical samples, no reports to date have documented SARS-CoV-2 in human milk. This case report describes an actively breastfeeding patient with COVID-19 infection with detectable viral RNA in human milk.
Keywords: COVID-19; Human milk; SARS-CoV-2; breastfeeding.