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ArticleMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2023

Editorial: Outbreaks of Post-Pandemic Childhood Pneumonia and the Re-Emergence of Endemic Respiratory Infections.

Dinah V Parums

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Article in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Dinah V ParumsScience Editor, Medical Science Monitor, International Scientific Information, Inc., Melville, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In October and November 2023, hospitals in the major cities of Beijing and Liaoning in northern China reported a surge in cases of pneumonia in children, with some hospitals being overwhelmed by pediatric emergency admissions. Similar outbreaks of childhood pneumonia had been reported in the autumn of 2022 in Europe and North America. Therefore, increased reports of childhood pneumonia could be driven by post-pandemic changes in the pathogenesis of endemic respiratory infections other than COVID-19, including Mycoplasma pneumoniae, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza, rather than emerging novel pathogens. However, the recent reports of increased hospitalizations for children with pneumonia warrant continued infection surveillance and monitoring to exclude new respiratory pathogens or more virulent variants of known pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2. This editorial aims to present what is known about the re-emergence of endemic respiratory infections, which may be the cause of the recently reported outbreaks of childhood pneumonia.

Indexed as

Influenza, HumanPneumoniaRespiratory Syncytial Virus, HumanRespiratory Tract InfectionsChildHumansPandemics

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PMID38037346
PMCPMC10702145
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