The Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit of Ain Shams University in times of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: approach and challenges

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Yehia El-Gamal ¹
• Zeinab El-Sayed ²
• Elham Hossny ³
• Shereen Reda ⁴
• Dalia El-Ghoneimy ⁵
• Rasha El-Owaidy ⁶
• Nesrine Radwan ⁷
• Ghada Shousha ⁸
• Amr Elmekkawy ⁸
• Amal Lotfy ⁸
• Mariam Abdelnaby ⁸
• Roba Al-Gaweesh ⁸
• Rana Zakaria ⁸
• Mostafa El-Amin

¹ Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University

² Pediatric allergy and immunology unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University and WAO board member

³ Professor of Pediatrics Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

⁴ MD, PhD FRCPE. Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Ain-Shams University, Egypt. Member of the European Society of Immunodeficiency (ESID)

⁵ Pediatric Allergy and Immunlogy Unit, Ain Shams University

⁶ MD, PhD. Associate professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Ain-Shams University, Egypt. Member, ESPAI, WAO, EAACI, ESID, ASID

⁷ Children's hospital, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, Ain Shams University

⁸ The Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, Children’s Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Keywords

• COVID-19
• pandemia
• pediatric
• allergy immunology
• rheumatology
• Ain Shams university