Understanding Covid and the associated post-infectious hyper-inflammatory state (PIMS-TS) in children

When SARS-CoV2 infection was first reported from China, very few children had severe lung or systemic disease. Approximately six weeks after the first adult cases were reported in the United Kingdom, a small subgroup of children of largely non-white backgrounds, presented with severe hyper-inflammat...

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Autor principal: Riphagen, Shelley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32758875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110029
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Sumario:When SARS-CoV2 infection was first reported from China, very few children had severe lung or systemic disease. Approximately six weeks after the first adult cases were reported in the United Kingdom, a small subgroup of children of largely non-white backgrounds, presented with severe hyper-inflammatory disease, most likely associated with Covid. The possible reasons for this ethnic predilection are explored.

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