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Clinical Characteristics of 58 Children With a Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2

CollaboratorsPosfay Barbe, Klara
Published inJAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), vol. 324, no. 3, p. 259-269
Publication date2020
Abstract

Importance: In communities with high rates of coronavirus disease 2019, reports have emerged of children with an unusual syndrome of fever and inflammation. Objectives: To describe the clinical and laboratory characteristics of hospitalized children who met criteria for the pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS) and compare these characteristics with other pediatric inflammatory disorders.

Keywords
  • Adolescent
  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Coronavirus Infections/complications
  • England
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome/physiopathology
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral/complications
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Symptom Assessment
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/diagnosis/physiopathology
Funding
  • European Commission - The genetic basis of meningococcal and other life threatening bacterial infections of childhood [279185]
  • European Commission - Personalised Risk assessment in febrile illness to Optimise Real-life Management across the European Union [668303]
Citation (ISO format)
WHITTAKER, Elizabeth et al. Clinical Characteristics of 58 Children With a Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2. In: JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), 2020, vol. 324, n° 3, p. 259–269. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.10369
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Journal ISSN0098-7484
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