Lokesh Vaishnav
Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Demmed to be University) Sawangi (Meghe) Wardha, Maharashtra, IndiaPublications
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Review Article
Why COVID-19 is Less Frequent and Severe in Children: Understanding the Immune Responses
Author(s): Priyadarshini Singh, Lokesh Vaishnav, Shiv Joshi, Abhishek Joshi* and Ashok Mehendale
Background: Currently countries all around the globe are experiencing the pandemic caused by the deadly virus SARSCoV- 2, which is proving itself to be a huge burden on the intensive care facilities of the globe and causing a large proportion of untimely deaths all across the world. It has been seen that the number of children who come in contact with the COVID-19 virus have milder course of the disease and the extent of infection is also less frequent as that of the adult patients. We have tried to search and discover some causal evidences for this problem present in front of us. Data sources: An extensive search strategy was designed to identify papers on COVID-19 and a systematic literature review was carried out using MEDLINE, PubMed, Google scholar, EMBASE databases. Results: The searches assembled 60 applicable articles. The evaluation discovered t.. Read More»