Yi-Kan Sun, Can Wang, Pei-Quan Lin, Lei Hu, Jing Ye, Zhi-Gang Gao, Ru Lin, Hao-Min Li, Qiang Shu, Li-Su Huang, Lin-Hua Tan
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tends to have mild presentations in children. However, severe and critical cases do arise in the pediatric population with debilitating systemic impacts and can be fatal at times, meriting further attention from clinicians. Meanwhile, the intricate interactions between the pathogen virulence factors and host defense mechanisms are believed to play indispensable roles in severe COVID-19 pathophysiology but remain incompletely understood. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive literature review was conducted for pertinent publications by reviewers independently using the PubMed, Embase, and Wanfang databases...
February 6, 2024: World Journal of Pediatrics: WJP