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SUBMITTER: Toubiana J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7716402 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toubiana Julie J Levy Corinne C Allali Slimane S Jung Camille C Leruez-Ville Marianne M Varon Emmanuelle E Bajolle Fanny F Ouldali Naim N Chareyre Judith J Béchet Stephane S Elbez Annie A Casanova Jean-Laurent JL Chalumeau Martin M Cohen Robert R Cohen Jérémie F JF
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20201201 48
We assessed the association between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and Kawasaki disease (KD)-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a retrospective case-control study in France. RT-PCR and serological tests revealed SARS-CoV-2 infection in 17/23 cases vs 11/102 controls (matched odds ratio: 26.4; 95% confidence interval: 6.0-116.9), indicating strong association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and KD-like illness. Clinicians should keep a high level of sus ...[more]