Susceptibility and infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 in children versus adults, by variant (wild-type, alpha, delta): A systematic review and meta-analysis of household contact studies

• Olalekan A. Uthman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: olalekan.uthman@warwick.ac.uk

  Affiliation Warwick Centre for Global Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8567-3081

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• Frederik Plesner Lyngse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics & Center for Economic Behaviour and Inequality, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0584-6115

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• Seun Anjorin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Warwick Centre for Global Health, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Barbara Hauer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Respiratory Infections Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Seran Hakki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Diego A. Martinez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-2471

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• Yang Ge,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Health Professions, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Jakob Jonnerby,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Cathinka Halle Julin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3934-7410

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• Gary Lin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Ajit Lalvani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Julika Loss,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Kieran J. Madon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Leonardo Martinez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Lisbeth Meyer Næss,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Kathleen R. Page,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Diana Prieto,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

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• Anna Hayman Robertson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Ye Shen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Juliane Wurm,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Udo Buchholz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Respiratory Infections Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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