Seigo Korematsu, Takao Fujisawa, Naruo Saito, Junichiro Tezuka, Katsushi Miura, Ichiro Kobayashi, Ippei Miyata, Yujiro Kosugi, Yuji Gohda, Yumi Koike, Ami Suda, Akiko Matsuo, Michiyo Sasaki, Yousuke Handa, Michimasa Fujiwara, Atsushi Ono, Shinya Koizumi, Taku Oishi, Takayuki Tanaka, Yusuke Ando, Naohiko Taba, Yuki Tsurinaga, Takeshi Sato, Rei Kanai, Masato Yashiro, Toshiyuki Takagi, Shinya Hida, Masashi Harazaki, Takayuki Hoshina, Seigo Okada, Motoko Yasutomi, Setsuko Nakata, Ayako Muto, Saori Tanabe, Yutaka Ueda, Shunji Hasegawa, Makoto Kameda, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Tsuguto Fujimoto, Kenji Okada
BACKGROUND: Acute asthma exacerbation in children is often caused by respiratory infections. In this study, a coordinated national surveillance system for acute asthma hospitalizations and causative respiratory infections was established. We herein report recent trends in pediatric acute asthma hospitalizations since the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. METHODS: Thirty-three sentinel hospitals in Japan registered all of their hospitalized pediatric asthma patients and their causal pathogens...
January 2024: Clinical and Translational Allergy