COVID-19 and complicated bacterial pneumonia in children

Mohamad Kaddour; Marcelle Simeonovic; Joshua Osowicki; Sarah McNab; Catherine Satzke; Colin Robertson; Cattram Nguyen; Sebastian King; Shivanthan Shanthikumar

doi:10.1183/23120541.00884-2020

COVID-19 and complicated bacterial pneumonia in children

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Mar 22;7(1):00884-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00884-2020. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Authors

Mohamad Kaddour¹, Marcelle Simeonovic², Joshua Osowicki^{3

4

5}, Sarah McNab^{2

5

6}, Catherine Satzke^{5

7

8}, Colin Robertson^{1

5

9}, Cattram Nguyen^{5

10}, Sebastian King^{5

11

12}, Shivanthan Shanthikumar^{1

5

9}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
² General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
³ Infectious Diseases Unit, Dept of General Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁴ Tropical Diseases, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁵ Dept of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁶ Clinical Paediatrics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Translational Microbiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁸ Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁹ Respiratory, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
¹⁰ Infection and Immunity Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
¹¹ Dept of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
¹² Surgical Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.

Abstract

Social distancing measures instituted due to #SARSCoV2 have dramatically reduced paediatric thoracic empyema cases in Australia https://bit.ly/3akG98M.