Feng Tang

Coronavirus Pandemic A retrospective study of respiratory infections in children following the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China

A retrospective study of respiratory infections in children following the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China.

INTRODUCTION Acute respiratory infections cause over 4 million deaths annually worldwide, half of which occur in children under 5 years, primarily in developing countries. This study investigated the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pediat...

Phenotype-specific 25-hydroxyvitamin D and fat-soluble vitamin profiles in girls with pediatric endocrine disorders: a large cross-sectional study

Objective To characterize serum vitamin A, total 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and vitamin E across common pediatric endocrine disorders in girls and to test whether the profiles are phenotype-specific. Methods In this single-center retrospective cross-sectional study, serum vitamin A, total 25(OH)D, and vitamin E were...

Clonal patient-to-patient spread is associated with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in a Chinese pediatric hospital: an integrated phenotype–genotype–PFGE surveillance study

Pediatric multidrug-resistant A. baumannii infections in this hospital were most consistent with patient-to-patient dissemination of a dominant resistant clone rather than with contamination from the hospital-setting or medical-waste reservoirs sampled here, although the small environmental sample cannot definitively e...