Clin Infect Dis 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)

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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 ¹ , Kathleen M Ly ¹ , Max L Kernich ^{1 2} , Nicola Spurrier ^{3 4} , Diana Lawrence ⁵ , David L Gordon ^{1 2 4} , Emily C Tucker ¹



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.