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COVID-19 and Kawasaki Disease: Kawasaki-Like Disease Case Report in Iran
During the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, children are less affected than adults, and underlying conditions and older age are associated with severe disease. Following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, outbreaks of cases with Kawasaki-like disease and a few others with the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children related to COVID-19 (MIS-C) have been reported. Here, we report a two-y...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical & Experimental Immunology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-9104
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01395.x