The missing link? Children and transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Alasdair Munro

doi:10.31440/DFTB.25585

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Mohammad Alam

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Nicola Mulrooney

Nicolene Shipton

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Rie Yoshida

Robyn Goodier

Ronán Murphy

Rosanne Verow

Rowenne Smith

Roy McKenna

Sabrina Barrett

Sachin Unny

Samuel Danaher

Sandi Angus

Sanjay Patel and Alasdair Munro

Sarah Davies

Sarah Edwards

Sarah Josephi-Taylor

Sarah Kapur

Sarah Kapur and Cheryl Keel

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Sarah Ren

Seán Casey

Segn Nedd

Shaarna Shanmugavadivel

Shah Rahman

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Sharmila Manivannan

Sharryn Gardner

Sheri Brown

Shree Malani

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Siobhán McCoy

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Trisha Parmar

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Victoria Stead

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Viv Forde and Owen Keane

Zeshan Qureshi

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Zoltan Gyorgyi

Alasdair Munro is a Paediatric registrar in the UK, currently working as a Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases. His interests include evidence based medicine, diagnostics and antimicrobial resistance. @apsmunro | Ally's DFTB posts

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