Kids who contract a gentle case of COVID-19 could not develop antibodies to the virus afterward, a research from Australia has prompt.
Researchers in contrast 57 kids and 51 adults with gentle COVID-19 or asymptomatic infections.
Solely 37% of kids appeared to develop antibodies, in comparison with 76% of adults – although viral hundreds have been related within the two teams, researchers discovered.
Kids’s our bodies additionally didn’t seem to provide second-line mobile immune responses to the virus in the identical means as adults, mentioned research chief Paul Licciardi of Murdoch Kids’s Analysis Institute in Melbourne.
The members within the research have been all contaminated in 2020, his group mentioned forward of peer overview.
“Whether or not this additionally occurs for the present circulating variant (Delta) requires additional investigation, in addition to research to know why kids are much less prone to produce antibody responses following SARS-CoV-2 an infection,” Licciardi mentioned.
“Whether or not this implies kids are prone to re-infection just isn’t identified,” he added.