A Cross Sectional Study of the Systems Immunology and Viral Diversity of SARS-CoV2 Infection, COVID-19 Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
Objectives: To perform systems immunology and strain diversity among SARS-CoV2 and MIS-C infected children. Study design: Cross sectional study. Study population: Children attending outpatients units and admitted in wards in pediatric hospitals in Chennai. Main study parameters/endpoints: Immune responses in children with SARS-CoV2 infection and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) infection and its association of SARS-CoV2 viral diversity.
• Children between 1 to 15 years of age
• Willing to provide informed consent (parents)/assent
• For Group 1 - Positive or Negative for COVID-19 by RT-PCR but positive for SARS-CoV2 IgG
• For Group 2 - Positive for COVID-19 by RT-PCR but negative for SARS-CoV2 IgG
• For Group 3 - Positive for COVID-19 by RT-PCR or positive for SARS-CoV2 IgG antibody
• For Group 4 - Control children who are negative for both RT-PCR and IgG antibody