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Samples of pharyngeal swab in 6 cases, amniotic fluid and umbilical cord blood in 4 cases were tested by qRT-PCR, and there was no positive result of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid in all cases. CONCLUSIONS The current data show that the infection of SARS-CoV-2 in late pregnant women does not cause adverse outcomes in their newborns, however, it is necessary to separate newborns from mothers immediately to avoid the potential threats. BACKGROUND In December 2019, Wuhan, China, experienced an outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). The number of cases has increased rapidly, but information on the clinical characteristics remains limited. OBJECTIVES This paper describes the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of COVID-19. Early detection and identification of critically ill patients is necessary to facilitate scientific classification and treatment. STUDY DESIGN This study included a retrospective, single-center case series of 99 consecutively hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 at Chengdu Public Health Clinical Medical Center in Chengdu, China, from January 16 to February 20, 2020. The final date of follow-up was February 23, 2020. We collected and analyzed epidemiological, demographic, clinical, laboratory, radiological, and treatment data. We compared outcomes of critically ill patients and noncritically ill patients. RESULTS Of the 99 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, the median age was 49 years (minimum, 3 months; maxi2 hospitalized patients who were critically ill with confirmed COVID-19 in Chengdu, China, and compared data with 67 noncritically ill patients. Elderly patients had chronic underlying diseases, notably cardiovascular disease. Higher C-reactive protein levels, higher levels of myocardial damage, and higher brain natriuretic peptide levels; lower white blood cells, neutrophils, and lymphocytes; and lower CD4 and CD8 counts could be used for early detection and identification of critically ill patients, and dynamic Data observation was more important than at a single moment. BACKGROUND The outbreak of a new coronavirus, first reported in Wuhan, China, is spreading around the world. Information on the characteristics of children with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is limited. METHODS In this retrospective study, we recruited 10 children infected with SARS-COV-2 from January 27 to March 10, 2020, in Changsha, China. We report the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and high-resolution CT findings for these children. Qualitative descriptive analysis was used to describe the key results. RESULTS Ten children were included. Three were male and seven were female. Three were from Wuhan, Hubei Province, and seven were from Changsha. All had a history of close contact with adults with COVID-19 before the onset of disease. Clinical manifestations included fever in four cases, respiratory symptoms in three cases, febrile convulsions in one case, vomiting in one case, abdominal pain in one case, and asymptomatic infection in two cases. All the children tested positive for nucleic acid in throat swabs at admission. Stool swabs of three cases were positive for nucleic acid after several days of fever. In nine children, blood routine results were normal, whereas in one case the white blood cell count was elevated. In four cases, CT findings of the lungs showed light ground-glass opacities, one case showed changes similar to bronchopneumonia, and the remaining cases were normal. Selleckchem APG-2449 All were treated with symptomatic support without complications. CONCLUSION Our findings indicate that intrafamily transmission may be the main form of transmission of COVID-19 in children, and persistent intestinal excretion of virus is another characteristic among children. The results of stool swab tests should be considered for discharge and release from isolation. BACKGROUND Neurological complications associated with influenza (NCI) are rare events in adults with seasonal influenza. Information about the characteristics of neurological complications and the burden of disease has been limited to case reports, mainly during the pandemic 2009. Influenza-associated encephalopathy/encephalitis (IAE) is one of the most severe and frequently reported NCI, mostly caused by influenza A. Isolated case reports exist about NCI caused by influenza B. OBJECTIVES The aim of this single center retrospective study is the better understanding of the frequency and the characteristics of NCI in adults in season 2017-2018, depending on the influenza subtype A or B. STUDY DESIGN We reviewed 874 adult patients with laboratory confirmed influenza admitted to the Christian Doppler University Hospital Salzburg, Austria from December 2017 until March 2018 looking for NCI. RESULTS 37 (4 %) of the 874 patients with confirmed influenza had NCI. 4 (11 %) had influenza A and 33 (89 %) had influenza B. IAE was the most frequent complication diagnosed in 24 (65 %) patients, of whom all but one had influenza B and 3 (13 %) had neurological residuals. Moreover 6 (16 %) had isolated epileptic seizures, 2 (5 %) had acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), and 5 (14 %) were classified as having infection-associated stroke. CONCLUSIONS We report an incidence of 4 % for NCI and a high frequency of IAE caused by subtype B. Therefore, we recommend considering both influenza A and B as an etiologic factor of encephalopathy and other neurological disease in adults. BACKGROUND In recent years, interest in universal newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) has intensified. consequently, reliable and simple methods of mass screening for cCMV, are essential. Herein, we present a novel approach of using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in saliva with direct inoculation onto Guthrie paper. Our aim was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of real- time PCR in saliva rolled directly onto Guthrie paper in diagnosing cCMV infection. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of real-time PCR analysis of dried saliva on Guthrie paper as a future approach for mass screening of newborns in diagnosing cCMV infection. STUDY DESIGN This prospective, blinded study was performed in a tertiary cytomegalovirus (CMV) clinic from May 2018 through January 2019. Forty-two cCMV positive newborns and 41 without cCMV, were enrolled and tested for CMV using PCR from their saliva placed onto Guthrie paper and from their saliva using standard methods. Specificity and sensitivity of dried saliva PCR versus gold-standard methods were analyzed.