Syndrome resembling Kawasaki disease in COVID-19 asymptomatic children

• Main Authors: Suriya Rehman, Tariq Majeed, Mohammad Azam Ansari, Ebtesam A. Al-Suhaimi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
• Series: Journal of Infection and Public Health
• Subjects: COVID-19; Children; Multisystem inflammatory syndrome; Kawasaki disease
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034120306018
• ISSN: 1876-0341

The current knowledge about the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) pandemic is still limited and is unravelling with the passing days, especially clinical data, and research in pediatric age group. Recently, there is a new and crucial development reported recently among the COVID-19 asymptomatic children, a novel syndrome affecting asymptomatic COVID-19 children, presenting as a hyperinflammatory syndrome which is like Kawasaki disease shock syndrome. The purpose of this correspondence is to discuss some important findings of the syndrome for the better understanding of the disease.