Researchers decipher MIS-C, the scary illness that followed COVID in some kids

Researchers decipher MIS-C, the scary illness that followed COVID in some kids

Publication date: Aug 09, 2024

DeRisi says it now mostly occurs only in unvaccinated children. But Bodanksy notes that some children still develop life-threatening immune responses after other infections. The researchers analyzed those samples using a sophisticated sequencing technology that allowed them to identify the targets of past immune responses. A second analysis revealed that protein turned out to look a lot like a part of the coronavirus. Early in the pandemic, kids began showing up in emergency departments with symptoms including persistent high fevers, vomiting, fatigue and heart inflammation. Most recovered fully. More rare today, but still happeningThese days, the condition is even rarer. Some needed intensive care and ventilators.

Concepts Keywords
Coronavirus Body
Library Called
Medicine Children
Rarer Condition
Vomiting Covid
Derisi
Develop
Immune
Inflammation
Kids
Mis
Pandemic
Says
Syndrome

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH syndrome
disease MESH infection
disease MESH emergency
disease MESH inflammation
disease IDO blood
disease VO time
disease VO report
disease IDO immune response
pathway REACTOME Immune System
disease MESH causes
disease MESH COVID-19
drug DRUGBANK Nonoxynol-9
disease VO unvaccinated
drug DRUGBANK Tropicamide

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