VIROLOGICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL FEATURES OF SARS-COV-2 INFECTED CHILDREN WITH DISTINCT SYMPTOMATOLOGY
Authors’ list: Nicola Cotugno1,2,# , Alessandra Ruggiero1, # , Giuseppe Rubens Pascucci1,2, Francesco Bonfante3, Maria Raffaella Petrara4, Sonia Zicari1, Loredana Cifaldi1,2, Paola Zangari1, Stefania Bernardi1, Laura Cursi1, Chiara Medri1, Veronica Santilli1, Emma Concetta Manno1, Donato Amodio1,2, Giulia Linardos5, Livia Piccioni5, Maria Antonietta Barbieri6, Daniela Perrotta6, Andrea Campana1, Daniele Donà7, Carlo Giaquinto7, the CACTUS Study Team, Carlo Concato5, Petter Brodin8, Paolo Rossi1,2, Anita De Rossi4, Paolo Palma1,2, * .
Affiliations : 1 Research Unit of Clinical Immunology and Vaccinology, Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO) Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy;2 Chair of Pediatrics, Dept. of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy;3Laboratory of Experimental Animal models, Division of Comparative BiomedicalSciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy; 4Section of Oncology and Immunology, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Unit of Viral Oncology and AIDS Reference Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 5Department of Laboratories, Division of Virology, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy;6 Department of Pediatric Emergency, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy. 7Department of Mother and Child Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;8Department of Woman’s and Children Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.