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Volume 27, Number 12—December 2021
Research

Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Households with Children, Southwest Germany, May–August 2020

Maximilian Stich1, Roland Elling1, Hanna Renk1, Aleš Janda1, Sven F. Garbade, Barbara Müller, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Dorit Fabricius, Maria Zernickel, Peter Meissner, Daniela Huzly, Jürgen Grulich-Henn, Anneke Haddad, Tessa Görne, Benedikt Spielberger, Linus Fritsch, Alexandra Nieters, Hartmut Hengel, Andrea N. Dietz, Thomas Stamminger, Tina Ganzenmueller, Natalia Ruetalo, Andreas Peter, Jonathan Remppis, Thomas Iftner, Kathrin Jeltsch, Tim Waterboer, Axel R. Franz, Georg Friedrich Hoffmann, Corinna Engel2, Klaus-Michael Debatin2, Burkhard Tönshoff2Comments to Author , and Philipp Henneke2
Author affiliations: Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany (M. Stich, S.F. Garbade, B. Müller, H.-G. Kräusslich, J. Grulich-Henn, K. Jeltsch, G.F. Hoffmann, B. Tönshoff); University Medical Centre and Faculty of Medicine Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (R. Elling, D. Huzly, A. Haddad, T. Görne, B. Spielberger, L. Fritsch, A. Nieters, H. Hengel, P. Henneke); University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (H. Renk, T. Ganzenmueller, N. Ruetalo, A. Peter, J. Remppis, T. Iftner, A.R. Franz, C. Engel); Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany (A. Janda, D. Fabricius, M. Zernickel, P. Meissner, A.N. Dietz, T. Stamminger, K.-M. Debatin); German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg (T. Waterboer)

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Table 1

Demographic characteristics of study participants from 405 households, southwest Germany, May–August 2020

Characteristic Total cohort Adults Children
No. participants 1,625 922 703
Median age, y 30.0 42.6 10.0
Interquartile range 11.0–45.0 37.0–50.0 5.79–13.9
Range
 0.50–81.1
 18.0–81.1
 0.50–17.9
No. index case-patients 405 380 25
Median age, y 43.6 44.8 13.3
Interquartile range 37.2–49.5 38.0–49.9 9.03–16.2
Range
 1.36–71.5
 18.3–71.5
 1.36–17.6
No. exposed household members 1220 542 678
Median age, y 16.2 42.8 9.83
Interquartile range 8.99–41.0 35.4–50.0 5.58–13.8
Range
 0.50–81.1
 18.0–81.1
 0.50–17.9
Sex
M 807 457 350
F
 818
 465
 353
Household size*
2–3 267 174 93
4 804 449 355
5 360 192 168
>6
 194
 107
 87
Region
Freiburg 577 329 248
Heidelberg 532 306 226
Tübingen 319 175 144
Ulm 197 112 85

*Includes household members who did not participate.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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