id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-268492-0rbmqarx Alberer, Martin Cats and kids: how a feline disease may help us unravel COVID-19 associated paediatric hyperinflammatory syndrome 2020-09-02 .txt text/plain 1533 79 44 The RCPCH and CDC have published a case definition and scientists refer to this novel but still very rare severe clinical condition in children as "paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2" (PIMS-TS). While reflecting on this syndrome and its characteristic features, some interesting similarities come to mind when comparing the clinical course of PIMS-TS cases and the specific features of a disease in cats called feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) caused by the feline coronavirus (FCoV), an alphacoronavirus [2] . On this note, it would be of great interest to see whether mutations in the viral genome, particularly in regions affecting the S-protein of SARS-CoV-2, could lead to a change in cell tropism enabling the virus to more effectively infect and replicate within human monocytes/macrophages subsequently leading to the clinical picture of PIMS-TS. ./cache/cord-268492-0rbmqarx.txt ./txt/cord-268492-0rbmqarx.txt