The clinical characteristics of pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 in 2020 in Japan

The clinical characteristics of pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 in 2020 in Japan

Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected the lives of people of all ages. Most reports on pediatric cases suggest that children experience fewer and milder symptoms than do adults. This is the first nationwide study in Japan focusing on pediatric cases reported by pediatricians, including cases...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pediatrics international 2022-01, Vol.64 (1), p.e14912-n/a
Hauptverfasser: Katsuta, Tomohiro, Shimizu, Naoki, Okada, Kenji, Tanaka‐Taya, Keiko, Nakano, Takashi, Kamiya, Hajime, Amo, Kiyoko, Ishiwada, Naruhiko, Iwata, Satoshi, Oshiro, Makoto, Okabe, Nobuhiko, Kira, Ryutaro, Korematsu, Seigo, Suga, Shigeru, Tsugawa, Takeshi, Nishimura, Naoko, Hishiki, Haruka, Fujioka, Masashi, Hosoya, Mitsuaki, Mizuno, Yumi, Mine, Mahito, Miyairi, Isao, Miyazaki, Chiaki, Morioka, Ichiro, Morishima, Tsuneo, Yoshikawa, Tetsushi, Wada, Taizo, Azuma, Hiroshi, Kusuhara, Koichi, Ouchi, Kazunobu, Saitoh, Akihiko, Moriuchi, Hiroyuki
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Sprache:eng
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Adolescent
Adult
Child
Children
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Epidemiology
household contact
Humans
Japan - epidemiology
Original
Pandemics
Pediatrics
SARS-CoV-2
school closure
School closures
Schools
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Zusammenfassung:Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected the lives of people of all ages. Most reports on pediatric cases suggest that children experience fewer and milder symptoms than do adults. This is the first nationwide study in Japan focusing on pediatric cases reported by pediatricians, including cases with no or mild symptoms. Methods We analyzed the epidemiological and clinical characteristics and transmission patterns of 840 pediatric (
ISSN:1328-8067
1442-200X
DOI:10.1111/ped.14912