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Elizabeth Whittaker

Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
Cited by 10852

Paediatric tuberculosis

SM Newton, AJ Brent, S Anderson… - The Lancet infectious …, 2008 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis continues to cause an unacceptably high toll of disease and death among
children worldwide, particularly in the wake of the HIV epidemic. Increased international …

[HTML][HTML] A national consensus management pathway for paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS): results of a …

R Harwood, B Allin, CE Jones, E Whittaker… - The Lancet Child & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-
TS) is a novel condition that was first reported in April, 2020. We aimed to develop a national …

Systematic review of reviews of symptoms and signs of COVID-19 in children and adolescents

RM Viner, JL Ward, LD Hudson, M Ashe… - Archives of disease in …, 2021 - adc.bmj.com
Objective To undertake a systematic review of reviews of the prevalence of symptoms and
signs of COVID-19 in those aged under 20 years. Design Narrative systematic review of …

Clinical characteristics of 58 children with a pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2

E Whittaker, A Bamford, J Kenny, M Kaforou, CE Jones… - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In communities with high rates of coronavirus disease 2019, reports have
emerged of children with an unusual syndrome of fever and inflammation. Objectives To …

[HTML][HTML] Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022

R Vivancos, C Anderson, P Blomquist… - …, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
Between 7 and 25 May, 86 monkeypox cases were confirmed in the United Kingdom (UK).
Only one case is known to have travelled to a monkeypox virus (MPXV) endemic country …

[HTML][HTML] Kawasaki-like disease: emerging complication during the COVID-19 pandemic

RM Viner, E Whittaker - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
patients still in the hospital (94 [37%]) at the end of follow-up. The multivariable Cox model
analysis showed that history of chronic pulmonary disease had the highest adjusted hazard …

[HTML][HTML] Intensive care admissions of children with paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in the UK: a …

P Davies, C Evans, HK Kanthimathinathan… - The Lancet Child & …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary Background In April, 2020, clinicians in the UK observed a cluster of children with
unexplained inflammation requiring admission to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). We …

Mutations in ADAR1 cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome associated with a type I interferon signature

GI Rice, PR Kasher, GMA Forte, NM Mannion… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of
adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and thereby potentially alter the …

Mutations involved in Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome implicate SAMHD1 as regulator of the innate immune response

GI Rice, J Bond, A Asipu, RL Brunette, IW Manfield… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome is a mendelian mimic of congenital infection and also shows
overlap with systemic lupus erythematosus at both a clinical and biochemical level. The …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for post-COVID-19 condition in previously hospitalised children using the ISARIC Global follow-up protocol: a prospective cohort study

IM Osmanov, E Spiridonova, P Bobkova… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background The long-term sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in children
remain poorly characterised. This study aimed to assess long-term outcomes in children …