Pneumonia in Hospitalized Children During SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. Is it All COVID-19? Comparison Between COVID and Non-COVID Pneumonia

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 Mar 1;40(3):e111-e113. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003008.

Abstract

Our study describes more than 100 children hospitalized with pneumonia during lockdown in the first pandemic wave with only 20% attributable to SARS-CoV-2. The serologic study during follow-up only helped to detect 4%. Other etiologies were common. Older age, presence of headache, vomiting, lymphopenia and thrombopenia were associated with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / complications*
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / virology
  • Child
  • Child, Hospitalized
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Hospitals, University
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Pandemics*
  • Pneumonia / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia / etiology*
  • Pneumonia / virology
  • SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
  • SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*
  • Spain / epidemiology
  • Tertiary Care Centers