Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J;
Leon-Figueroa, Darwin A;
Romani, Luccio;
McHugh, Timothy D;
Leblebicioglu, Hakan;
(2022)
Vaccination of children against COVID-19: the experience in Latin America.
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
, 21
(1)
, Article 14. 10.1186/s12941-022-00505-7.
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Abstract
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally, becoming a long-lasting pandemic [1,2,3]. As is so often the case for infectious diseases, vulnerable communities are likely to demonstrate the worse effects and this holds true for COVID-19 in Latin America [4]. Early in the pandemic, it was believed that COVID-19 did not significantly affect children. However, since the first confirmed pediatric case of COVID-19 was reported in Shenzhen, China, many cases have been reported and studied in pediatric patients [5]. It is now known that COVID-19 can affect children of all ages [6,7,8,9]. Although in many settings children usually have a lower risk of exposure and are tested less frequently than adults, the incidence in some countries in children is similar to that in adults [10].
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Vaccination of children against COVID-19: the experience in Latin America |
Location: | England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12941-022-00505-7 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12941-022-00505-7 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2022 BioMed Central Ltd. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148601 |
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