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Severe COVID-19 in children during the Omicron BA.5 and XBB waves: clinical characteristics and risk factors

2026-08-14

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Background As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic persists amid the ongoing evolution of its causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), updated clinical characterization of infected children is needed. This study analyzed the clinical characteristics of children infected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.5 and XBB variants and the risk factor...

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Literature Corpus work: 9630254d-0ba7-5c9d-9c31-23feb6061f2b
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10508477/v1

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