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. 2021 Jan 26.
doi: 10.1007/s00408-021-00419-9. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 in Children with Asthma
Grigorios Chatziparasidis 1 , Ahmad Kantar 2
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- PMID: 33496842
- DOI: 10.1007/s00408-021-00419-9
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects both children and adults but epidemiological and clinical data demonstrate that children are less likely to have a severe disease course or die. Furthermore, asthmatic children show less severe disease manifestations when infected with SARS-CoV-2 comparing to adults. This review focuses on SARS-CoV-2 and childhood asthma interaction and aims at summarizing the current knowledge of the potential mechanisms that ameliorate disease symptomatology in asthmatic children.
Keywords: Asthma; COVID-19; Children; SARS-CoV-2.