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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2022

Children with trisomy 21 are a group at risk for severe COVID-19: Case reports from a COVID-19 treatment unit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Tinsae Alemayehu, Danilo Buonsenso

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tinsae AlemayehuAmerican Medical Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Danilo BuonsensoDepartment of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

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Abstract

Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) is a chromosomal disorder associated with humoral and cellular immunologic impairments among other systemic manifestations. It occurs at a frequency of 1 in 750 live births. There are increasing reports of children with Down syndrome presenting signs of severe COVID-19. The literature from Africa on pediatric COVID-19 and risk stratification for severe disease is scant. A summary of the clinical features, complications, and treatment outcomes of three Ethiopian children with Trisomy 21 and severe COVID-19 along with a discussion of the correlation between trisomy 21 immunology and severe SARS CoV-2 infection is presented.

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childrenCOVID-19Down syndromelow and middle income countriesSARS CoV-2

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