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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of children with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Abeer A. Alnajjar, Ahmed M. Dohain, Gaser A. Abdelmohsen, Turki S. Alahmadi, Zaher F. Zaher and Abobakr A. Abdelgalil
Saudi Medical Journal April 2021, 42 (4) 391-398; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20210011
Abeer A. Alnajjar
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
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Ahmed M. Dohain
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
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Gaser A. Abdelmohsen
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
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Turki S. Alahmadi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
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Zaher F. Zaher
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
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Abobakr A. Abdelgalil
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
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vol. 42 no. 4 391-398
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20210011
PubMed 
33795494

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received January 6, 2020
  • Accepted March 6, 2021
  • Published online March 31, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Abeer A. Alnajjar, MD,
  2. Ahmed M. Dohain, MD,
  3. Gaser A. Abdelmohsen, MD,
  4. Turki S. Alahmadi, MD,
  5. Zaher F. Zaher, MD and
  6. Abobakr A. Abdelgalil, MD⇑
  1. From the Department of Pediatrics (Alnajjar, Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Alahmadi, Zaher, Abdelgalil), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Dohain, Abdelmohsen, Abdelgalil), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abobakr A. Abdelgalil, Department of Paediatrics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bakrsree{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1639-0723
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