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ReviewPLoS pathogens2020

Can data from paediatric cohorts solve the COVID-19 puzzle?

Lien Anh Ha Do, Jeremy Anderson, Edward Kim Mulholland, Paul V Licciardi

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Review in PLoS pathogens, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lien Anh Ha DoInfection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2401-8980
Jeremy AndersonInfection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2150-7399
Edward Kim MulhollandInfection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7947-680X
Paul V LicciardiInfection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6086-6285

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is significantly more severe in adults than in children. The biological reasons for this difference remain to be elucidated. We have compared the most recent virological and immunological data related to COVID-19 between adults and children and contrasted this with earlier data from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by the related SARS-CoV-1 in 2003. Based on these available data, a number of hypotheses are proposed to explain the difference in COVID-19 clinical outcomes between adults and children. NF-kB may be a key factor that could explain the severe clinical manifestations of COVID-19 in adults as well as rare complications associated with paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in paediatric COVID-19 patients.

Indexed as

Age FactorsAdultBetacoronavirusChildCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansNF-kappa BPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeNF-kappa B

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PMID32903279
PMCPMC7480854

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