Unleashing the mysterious link between COVID-19 and a famous childhood vasculitis: Kawasaki disease

• Main Authors: Antoine Fakhry AbdelMassih (Author), Aisha Said AbdelAzeam (Author), Aya Ayad (Author), Aya Yasser Kamel (Author), Ayah Khalil (Author), Basma Kotb (Author), Dina Waheed (Author), Esraa Menshawey (Author), Fady Sefein (Author), Farah Taha (Author), Habiba-Allah Ismail (Author), Ibrahim Osman (Author), John Iskander (Author), Lama El Wakil (Author), Lara Rashad (Author), Mariem Badr Arsanyous (Author), Meryam El Shershaby (Author), Mina Mansour (Author), Mirette Ashraf (Author), Nada Hafez (Author), Nadeen Mohamed Abuzeid (Author), Noheir Mahmoud-Nashaat AbdElSalam (Author), Nouran Gamal Hafez (Author), Nourhan Youssef (Author), Rafeef Hozaien (Author), Rana Saeed (Author), Dina Kamel (Author), Manal Ahmed AbdelHameed (Author), Salma Ali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged as a small outbreak in Wuhan rapidly progressing into the deadliest pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. The disease was deemed trivial in children, until the reporting, few days ago, of an emerging pediatric multi-inflammatory syndr...