Abstract
Denggao Peng*, Jing Zhang, Zhichao Liu and Pengyao Wu Author Affiliations The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Received:March 03, 2021 | Published: March 10, 2021 Corresponding author: Denggao Peng, Department of emergency medicine, The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, No.29 Bu Lan Road, Longgang district, Shenzhen, 518112, China DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.34.005560
Highlights
Children are naturally susceptible to various respiratory viruses due to their immature immune systems
Procalcitonin can provide an important basis for differentiating COVID-19 alone and other viral infections or viral co-infections
We aimed to identify the clinical features of COVID-19 in children and evaluate the role of PCT in early differential diagnosis, so as to provide a basis for the following timely and reasonable treatment and effective prevention and control of COVID-19
Summary
Children are naturally susceptible to various respiratory viruses due to their immature immune systems. Limited by accuracy of real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection [4], relative reagent shortage and non-specificity of imaging findings, early differential diagnosis of suspected pediatric patients is difficult to some extent [5]. This has a serious impact on timely triage and the following reasonable treatment. We aimed to identify the clinical features of COVID-19 in children and evaluate the role of PCT in early differential diagnosis, so as to provide a basis for the following timely and reasonable treatment and effective prevention and control of COVID-19
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