Pediatrics and COVID-19.
Adv Exp Med Biol
; 1318: 197-208, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1222715
ABSTRACT
Viral respiratory tract infections are prevalent in children. They have substantial effects on childhood morbidity throughout the world, especially in developing countries. In this chapter, we describe the preliminary characteristics of pediatric COVID-19 and discover that severe and critical disease in children is rare. Many children remain asymptomatic. The reason why severity increases with progressing age and largely spares children is not yet known. In the search for possible explanations, we explore key differences between the pediatric and adult immune responses to new pathogens, and in host factors, such as ACE2 abundance.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pediatrics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Child
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Adv Exp Med Biol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
978-3-030-63761-3_12
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