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Syndrome resembling Kawasaki disease in COVID-19 asymptomatic children

The current knowledge about the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) pandemic is still limited and is unravelling with the passing days, especially clinical data, and research in pediatric age group. Recently, there is a new and crucial development reported recently among the COVID-19 asymptomatic ch...

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Autores principales: Rehman, Suriya, Majeed, Tariq, Ansari, Mohammad Azam, Al-Suhaimi, Ebtesam A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7439985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32919931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.08.003
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Majeed, Tariq
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description The current knowledge about the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) pandemic is still limited and is unravelling with the passing days, especially clinical data, and research in pediatric age group. Recently, there is a new and crucial development reported recently among the COVID-19 asymptomatic children, a novel syndrome affecting asymptomatic COVID-19 children, presenting as a hyperinflammatory syndrome which is like Kawasaki disease shock syndrome. The purpose of this correspondence is to discuss some important findings of the syndrome for the better understanding of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-74399852020-08-21 Syndrome resembling Kawasaki disease in COVID-19 asymptomatic children Rehman, Suriya Majeed, Tariq Ansari, Mohammad Azam Al-Suhaimi, Ebtesam A. J Infect Public Health Review Article The current knowledge about the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) pandemic is still limited and is unravelling with the passing days, especially clinical data, and research in pediatric age group. Recently, there is a new and crucial development reported recently among the COVID-19 asymptomatic children, a novel syndrome affecting asymptomatic COVID-19 children, presenting as a hyperinflammatory syndrome which is like Kawasaki disease shock syndrome. The purpose of this correspondence is to discuss some important findings of the syndrome for the better understanding of the disease. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2020-12 2020-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7439985/ /pubmed/32919931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.08.003 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.08.003
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