Author Contributions
JK is the major investigator of this study and PH contributed to the
children analysis. SF contributed to the design of this study,
supervised this work and wrote the manuscript. TV did the respiratory
virus analysis in the nasal pharyngeal fluid of the children analysed in
this study. AK and TZ are the paediatricians that saw most of the
children in Predicta WP1-UKER and made the medical diagnosis. MR did the
CRP analysis. NP designed the WP1 project Predicta and was the
coordinator of Predicta.