Author (Corporate) | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) |
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Publisher | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) |
Series Title | ECDC Risk Assessment |
Publication Date | 15/05/2020 |
Content Type | Report |
Summary: Several countries affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic recently reported cases of children that were hospitalised in intensive care due to a rare paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS). The presenting signs and symptoms are a mix of the ones for Kawasaki disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and are characterised, among others, by fever, abdominal pain and cardiac involvement. A possible temporal association with SARS-COV-2 infection has been hypothesised because some of the children that were tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection were either positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or serology. |
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https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-and-sars-cov-2-rapid-risk-assessment
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Subject Categories | Health |
Subject Tags | Public Health |
Keywords | COVID-19 (Coronavirus) |