SARS-CoV-2 variants and the risk of pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 among children in Germany.

Anna-Lisa Oechsle Viktoria Schönfeld A Siedler Markus Hufnagel Maren Doenhardt Natalie Diffloth Reinhard Berner Ruediger Von Kries Jakob Peter Armann

Published in: Infection (2022)

The data strongly suggest an association between the risk for PIMS-TS and the prevailing VOC, with highest risk related to Alpha and the lowest to Omicron. Given the uniformity of the decreased risk across age groups, vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 does not appear to have a significant impact on the risk of children developing PIMS-TS.

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respiratory syndrome coronavirus
young adults
oxidative stress
gene expression
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deep learning