Infectious Diseases in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Pediatric Reports (ISSN 2036-7503).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 538
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatrics; infectious disease; antimicrobial stewardship; infection in immunocompromised host
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) In the post-COVID-19 era, epidemiology and some major features of several infectious diseases in children changed remarkably. Specialists and non-specialists should be aware of such changes in order to behave more and more appropriately in diagnosing, treating, and counseling in this field.
(2) Provide and update written by a skilled specialist in pediatric infectious disease
(3) In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Invasive bacterial infection in children in post-COVID-19 era;
- Viral infections in post-COVID-19 era;
- Multiplex diagnosis in respiratory infections;
- Multiplex diagnosis in gastrointestinal infections;
- Soft tissue infections;
- Prenatal infections;
- HIV;
- HCV;
- Streptococcus pyogenes with special interest to indication to treatment;
- Antimicrobial resistance of mycoplasma pneumoniae;
- Antibiotics: stewardship and update;
- TB
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Désirée Caselli
Dr. Melodie Olivia Loredana Rosa Aricò
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pediatric infectious diseases
- antimicrobial resistance
- diagnostic approaches
- invasive bacterial infections
- emerging infectious diseases
- post-COVID-19 era
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