From the *Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
†Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
‡Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
§German Centre for Infection Research, DZIF, Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany
¶Veterinary and Ecological Sciences Liverpool, Institute of Infection, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
‖Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
**Great North Children’s Hospital, Paediatric Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Allergy, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
††Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
‡‡NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre based at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
§§Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, RadboudUMC, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
¶¶Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
‖‖Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
***Department of General Paediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
†††Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare Trust NHS, London, United Kingdom
‡‡‡Genetics, Vaccines, Infections and Paediatrics Research group (GENVIP), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
§§§Department of Infectious Diseases and Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
¶¶¶Second Department of Paediatrics, P. and A. Kyriakou Children’s Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
‖‖‖Department of Paediatric Infectious diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
****Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, Department of Paediatrics, Children Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
Accepted for publication July 26, 2021
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 668303 and No. 848196. The Research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres at Imperial College London, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. For the remaining authors no sources of funding were declared.
The funding sources had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
The study was approved by all the participating hospitals: Austria (Ethikkommission Medizinische Universität Graz, ID: 28-518 ex 15/16), Germany (Ethikkommission der LMU München, ID: 699-16), Greece (Ethics committee, ID: 9683/18.07.2016), Latvia (Centrala medicinas etikas komiteja, ID: 14.07.201 6. No. Il 16-07-14), Slovenia (Republic of Slovenia National Medical Ethics Committee, ID: ID: 0120-483/2016-3), Spain (Comité Autonómico de Ética de la Investigación de Galicia, ID: 2016/331), The Netherlands (Commissie Mensgebonden onderzoek, ID: NL58103.091.16), United Kingdom (Ethics Committee, ID: 16/LO/1684, IRAS application no. 209035, Confidentiality advisory group reference: 16/CAG/0136). No informed consent was needed for this study.
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Address for correspondence: Henriëtte A. Moll, MD, PhD, Department of General Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, P.O. Box 2060, 3000 CB Rotterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected].
