PED-MERMAIDS

Multy-centre EUropean Study of Major Infectious Disease Syndromes (MERMAIDS) – community acquired sepsis-like syndrome and paediatric acute respiratory tract infection in children
To estimate the proportion of children aged ≤6 months with sepsis-like syndrome with is attributable to Enterovirus or Human Parechovirus infection; to estimate the proportions of cases of acute respiratory syndrome in children aged 0 to 5 years old attributed to respiratory syncyntial vitus, influenza virus, human rhinovirus infection or S. pneumoniae.
Funding
PREPARE is funded by European Commission under grant nr 602525
People involved with the project
Professor Irja Lutsar
MD, PhD