Child with liver transplant recovers from COVID-19 infection. A case report

Aurelie Morand (1, 2) , Bertrand Roquelaure (3) , Philippe Colson (2) , Sophie Amrane (2, 4) , Emmanuelle Bosdure (1) , Didier Raoult (2, 4) , Jean-Christophe J.-C. Lagier (2, 4) , Alexandre Fabre (5)

1 Service de pédiatrie multidisciplinaire [Hôpital de la Timone Enfants - APHM]
2 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections
3 TIMONE - Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM]
4 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection
5 INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

We present the case of a 55-month-old girl who recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection 5 months after undergoing liver transplantation; she had a co-infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of a COVID-19 infection in a pediatric patient with liver transplantation. Additionally, this is also the first report of confirmed co-infection between COVID-19 and EBV. On the basis of this case, we suggest that liver transplantation is not associated with COVID-19 symptom severity and development. Moreover, COVID-19 and EBV co-infections do not seem to aggravate the clinical outcome. (C) 2020 French Society of Pediatrics. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Aurelie Morand, Bertrand Roquelaure, Philippe Colson, Sophie Amrane, Emmanuelle Bosdure, et al.. Child with liver transplant recovers from COVID-19 infection. A case report. Archives de Pédiatrie, 2020, 27 (5), pp.275-276. ⟨10.1016/j.arcped.2020.05.004⟩. ⟨hal-03149952⟩