Temporal and age distributions of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses, southeastern France

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OBJECTIVES: The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic presents a poorly understood epidemiological cycle. We aimed to compare the age and weekly distributions of the five human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, that circulated in southeastern France.

METHODS: We analyzed all available diagnoses of respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, performed between 09/2013 and 05/2020 at the University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, southeastern France.

RESULTS: For SARS-CoV-2, positive children <15 years of age represented 3.4% (228/6,735) of all positive cases, which is significantly less than for endemic coronaviruses (46.1%; 533/1,156; p < 0.001). Among 10,026 patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 and endemic coronaviruses in 2020, children <15 years represented a significantly lower proportion of all positive cases for SARS-CoV-2 than for endemic coronaviruses [2.2% (24/1,067) vs. 33.5% (149/445), respectively; p < 0.001]. Epidemic curves for endemic coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 in 91,722 patients showed comparable bell-shaped distributions with a slight time lag. In contrast, the age distribution of endemic coronaviruses and 14 other respiratory viruses differed significantly compared to that of SARS-CoV-2, which was the only virus to relatively spare children.

CONCLUSIONS: We observed for SARS-CoV-2 a temporal distribution resembling that of endemic coronaviruses but an age distribution that relatively spares the youngest subjects, who are those the most exposed to endemic coronaviruses.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:101

Enthalten in:

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 101(2020) vom: 10. Dez., Seite 121-125

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Colson, Philippe [VerfasserIn]
Esteves-Vieira, Vera [VerfasserIn]
Giraud-Gatineau, Audrey [VerfasserIn]
Zandotti, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Filosa, Véronique [VerfasserIn]
Chaudet, Hervé [VerfasserIn]
Lagier, Jean-Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Raoult, Didier [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Age
Children
Cross-immunity
Endemic coronavirus
Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2
Southeastern France

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Date Completed 31.12.2020

Date Revised 18.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1417

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315477482