Clinical Management of Pediatric COVID-19: An International Perspective and Practical Guide provides the most current international research and clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Coverage ranges from epidemiology including origin, route of transmission, incubation period, mortality and susceptibility risk factors; to pathogenesis, including difference between the adult and pediatric populations. Diagnosis is covered with special attention to the difference between adult and pediatric patients as well as the differences between newborns, children and adolescents. The book presents current complications, including multisystemic inflammatory syndrome as well as treatment therapies including antiviral and immunomodulatory therapies for this age group.



Finally, immunization efficacy and safety are examined. This is the perfect reference to provide guidance to pediatricians on the diagnosis and treatment of SARS-CoV-2, as well as a valuable source of the latest research about the pediatric population for further study.



About Char Leung

Dr. Char Leung, PhD, is Honorary Fellow of Deakin University, Australia, as well as researcher of the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, the University of Hong Kong. He has published multiple papers in a variety of peer-reviewed journals in pediatrics, virology, immunology, and public health, has served as a reviewer of more than 30 medical journals as well as guest editor. He has developed technologies for capsule endoscopy and cholangioscopy.


1. Epidemiology and virology of SARS-CoV-2
Char Leung

2. COVID-19 and pediatricsdphylogeny, pathology, and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2
Eduard Matkovic and Jessica Gulliver

3. Signs and symptoms commonly seen in COVID-19 in newborns, children, and adolescents and pediatric subjects
Giuseppina Malcangi, Alessio Danilo Inchingolo, Angelo Michele Inchingolo, Luigi Santacroce, Grazia Marinelli, Antonio Mancini, Luigi Vimercati, Maria Elena Maggiore, Maria Teresa D'Oria, Damiano Nemore, Arnaldo Scardapane, Biagio Rapone, Maria Franca Coscia, Ioana Roxana Bordea, Edit Xhajanka, Antonio Scarano, Marco Farronato, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia, Delia Giovanniello, Ludovica Nucci, Rosario Serpico, Mariantonietta Francavilla, Loredana Capozzi, Antonio Parisi, Marina Di Domenico, Felice Lorusso, Maria Contaldo, Francesco Inchingolo and Gianna Dipalma

4. Complications: MISC and other complications
Lilia M. Sierra-Galan and Roberto M. Richheimer-Wohlmuth

5. Diagnosis of pediatric COVID-19
Joseph L. Mathew and Ketan Kumar

6. Management of acute COVID-19 in the pediatric population and role of antimicrobial therapy
H.E. Groves, U. Allen and S.K. Morris

7. COVID-19 vaccinations for children and adolescents
Katrina Nicolopoulos, Ketaki Sharma, Lucy Deng and Archana Koirala

8. Long COVID in children
Joseph L. Mathew and Kamal Kumar Singhal