MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN A 5-YEAR-OLD CHILD WITH SARS-COV2/COVID-19 INFECTION AND POSITIVE SEROLOGY FOR DENGUE

Abstract

As SARS-CoV2 continues to spread around the world, there have been reports of children and adolescents with COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory conditions (SIMS-TAC) weeks after primary infection. This article reports the case of a 5-year-old patient with SARS-CoV2 infection and subsequent development of criteria for multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporarily associated with Coronavirus, also with suspected Dengue coinfection, with positive IgM. The importance of recognizing these cases, their spectrum of clinical presentation in the pediatric population during acute infection and the complication with SIMS-CT, which can lead to unfavorable clinical outcomes, proper diagnosis, timely management and confirmation will be announced. Molecular analysis of both viruses to achieve etiological identification, recognize when it is a co-infection or a cross-reaction and how to handle it appropriately for this type of case, to avoid complications.

Key words: Coronavirus; Dengue; Child; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Coinfection. Source: DeCS.