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Lancet Reg Health Eur


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Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS): Prospective, national surveillance, United Kingdom and Ireland, 2020.

Authors

Flood J, Shingleton J, Bennett E, Walker B, Amin-Chowdhury Z, Oligbu G, Avis J, Lynn RM, Davis P, Bharucha T, Pain CE, Jyothish D, Whittaker E, Dwarakanathan B, Wood R, Williams C, Swann O, Semple MG, Ramsay ME, Jones CE, et al.
Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2021 Apr; 3:100075.
PMID: 34027512.

Abstract

Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS), first identified in April 2020, shares features of both Kawasaki disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome (TSS). The surveillance describes the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of PIMS-TS in the United Kingdom and Ireland.