Risk factors for severe dengue mortality in pediatric patients at Mario Catarino Rivas

Abstract

Background: On December 31st, 2019 China released several case reports of unidentified etiology pneumonia. On February 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named the disease COVID-19 meaning coronavirus disease 2019. The first case was confirmed in Latin America on February 25th, 2020 in Brazil. In Honduras the first two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on March 10th, 2020 and the first pediatric case in San Pedro Sula (S.P.S) was confirmed on March 25th, 2020. Objective: Characterize clinically and epidemiologically coronavirus disease 2019 in pediatric ages in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Patients and Methods: Quantitative, descriptive and transversal study. We used a non probabilistic sample of 415 pediatric patients who underwent a real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR-tr) test. The studied variables were: sociodemographic, course of the disease, clinical manifestations, risk factors and patient management. The information gathered was submitted and analized in a Microsoft Excel database. Results: 170 (40.96%) patients in pediatric age had a positive result. The most affected age group were teenagers 54.71% (93). The course of the disease showed that 124 patients were symptomatic. The most frequent clinical manifestation was fever (37.10%). At the end of the study, 152 patients were still active with COVID-19. Conclusions: This study summarizes the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 in S.P.S.