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ReviewPediatric pulmonology2020

Overview: The history and pediatric perspectives of severe acute respiratory syndromes: Novel or just like SARS.

Kam Lun Hon, Karen Ka Yan Leung, Alexander K C Leung, Siddharth Sridhar, Suyun Qian, So Lun Lee, Andrew A Colin

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Review in Pediatric pulmonology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. COVID-19 Associated Croup.Current pediatric reviews · 2024
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  3. The role of IL-1 family of cytokines and receptors in pathogenesis of COVID-19.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2022
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  11. Higher Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound over Chest X-ray for Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  15. Pediatric COVID-19: what disease is this?World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Kam Lun HonDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The Hong Kong Children's Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6682-5529
Karen Ka Yan LeungDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The Hong Kong Children's Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6689-7194
Alexander K C LeungDepartment of Pediatrics, The University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Canada.
Siddharth SridharDepartment of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Suyun QianPediatric Intensive Care Unit, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China.
So Lun LeeDepartment of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Andrew A ColinDivision of Pediatric Pulmonology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
Capital Medical University · CNQueen Mary Hospital · CNUniversity of Calgary · CAUniversity of Hong Kong · HKUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many respiratory viral infections such as influenza and measles result in severe acute respiratory symptoms and epidemics. In the spring of 2003, an epidemic of coronavirus pneumonia spread from Guangzhou to Hong Kong and subsequently to the rest of the world. The WHO coined the acronym SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and subsequently the causative virus as SARS-CoV. In the summer of 2012, epidemic of pneumonia occurred again in Saudi Arabia which was subsequently found to be caused by another novel coronavirus. WHO coined the term MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) to denote the Middle East origin of the novel virus (MERS-CoV). In the winter of 2019, another outbreak of pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, China which rapidly spread globally. Yet another novel coronavirus was identified as the culprit and has been named SARS-CoV-2 due to its similarities with SARS-CoV, and the disease as coronavirus disease-2019. This overview aims to compare and contrast the similarities and differences of these three major episodes of coronavirus outbreak, and conclude that they are essentially the same viral respiratory syndromes caused by similar strains of coronavirus with different names. Coronaviruses have caused major epidemics and outbreaks worldwide in the last two decades. From an epidemiological perspective, they are remarkably similar in the mode of spread by droplets. Special focus is placed on the pediatric aspects, which carry less morbidity and mortality in all three entities.

Indexed as

PediatricsAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBetacoronavirusChildChild, PreschoolChinaCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHistory, 21st CenturyHumansInfantMaleacute respiratory distress syndromeCOVID-19, MERS-CoVMiddle East respiratory syndromeSARS-CoVSARS-CoV-2severe acute respiratory syndrome

Identifiers

PMID32483934
PMCPMC7301034
OpenAlexW3029701872

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