COVID-19

Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices as a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling

2026

Authors: Di Domenico L, Bosetti P, Sabbatini CE, Opatowski L, Colizza V.

Published in: Nature Communications

Household SARS-CoV-2 transmission during Omicron wave in Chiang Mai, Thailand: a prospective observational study

2026

Authors: Khamduang W, Suebtam P, Collins IJ, Sripan P, Chalom K, Hongjaisee S, Kham-Kjing N, Wangsaeng N, Inmonthian P, Pinasu A, Kohklang N, Arnal M, Spyer M, Steffens-Westerhof I,

Associations between virus single or coinfections and respiratory symptoms in young children; a community-based cohort study

2025

Authors: Hauser-van Westrhenen E, Junquera Guinovart L, Schuurman R, van Boven M, Bonten M, Bruijning-Verhagen P.

Published in: International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Short- and Long-term Humoral Response of Immunosuppressed Children to SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 Vaccine

2025

Authors: Tagarro A, Gastesi I, Hotterbeekx A, Aguilera-Alonso D, Konnova A, Gupta A, Salso S, Berkell M, Plata MdC, Domínguez-Rodríguez S, Ballesteros Á, Manzanares Á, Oltra M, Villanueva S,

BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in pregnancy: Emulating trial NCT04754594 using observational data from Norwegian health registries

2025

Authors: Zidan M, Trinh N, Desalegn A, Smith LH, van Gelder M, Nordeng H, Lupattelli A.

Published in: Vaccine

Long COVID and post-viral fatigue syndrome recorded in children and young people in England primary care, 2006-2022

2025

Authors: Raveendran V, Thorne C, Jackson C, Hardelid P.

Presented at: Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) Conference

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 infection on uptake of childhood vaccines in Norway

2025

Authors: Trinh NTH, Lupattelli A.

Presented at: European Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology Conference (EPPEC)

The prevalence and seasonal distribution of respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, in South African children with respiratory tract infections

2025

Authors: McGregor S, Claasen M, Barday M-A, van Niekerk M, Redfern A, Verhagen LM, Rabie H, van der Zalm MM, Hulsman C.

Presented at: Stellenbosch University Academic Year Day

Diarrhoeal admissions among children aged <5 years in public sector facilities in Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2021)

2025

Authors: Kehoe K, Morden E, Zinyakatira N, Heekes A, Jones HE, Walter SR, Jacobs T, Murray J, Buys H, Eley B, Redaniel T, Davies M-A.

Published in: South African Medical Journal

Nonparametric serial interval estimation with uniform mixtures

2025

Authors: Gressani O, Hens N.

Published in: PLOS Computational Biology

Otherness and blame: a comparative news media analysis of mpox outbreaks in Italy, Nigeria and the UK

2025

Authors: Bilardi D, Le Prevost M, Nicholls EJ, Osa-Afiana C, David A, Kandasamy S, Collins S, Sam-Agudu N, Tariq S.

Presented at: IAS 2025

Impact of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection on COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness in Children and Adolescents in Norway and Italy

2025

Authors: Barbieri E, Trinh NTH, Di Chiara C, Corrao G, Boracchini R, Rosa E, Liberati C, Donà D, Lupattelli A, Giaquinto C, Cantarutti A.

Published in: Vaccines

The effect of policy measures, school holidays and travel on the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults in Estonia from 2021 to 2022

2025

Authors: Soeorg H, Päll T, Abroi A, Avi R, Sadikova O, Härma M-A, Reisberg T, Lutsar I, Huik K.

Published in: PLOS One

ESPID Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of paediatric community-acquired pneumonia

2025

Presented by: Brigadoi G, Ambroggio L

Presented at: ESPID 2025

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Transforming trends: the changing landscape of infections in children over eight years

2025

Authors: Brigadoi G, Gres E, Zin A, Francaviglia G, Levinte E, Chiusaroli L, Rossin S, Chiariotti D, Ferraris G, Barbieri E, Liberati C, Giaquinto C, Bressan S, Donà D.

Mucosal immunity matters: salivary antibodies and cytokines are associated with disease severity in South African children hospitalized with acute respiratory infections

2025

Presented by: Geert van Weelden, on behalf of the VERDI consortium

Presented at: ESPID 2025

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The effect of pre-existing coronavirus antibodies on SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes in exposed household members

2025

Authors: Westerhof I, Sikkema R, Rozhnova G, van Beek J, Koopmans M, Bruijning-Verhagen P.

Presented at: WEON Conference

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SARS-CoV-2 Infection Incidence and Severity in Immunocompromised Children: A Population-Based Study in Italy and Norway

2025

Presented by: Costanza di Chiara on behalf of the VERDI consortium

Presented at: “Best of ESPID” session – ESPID 2025

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Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in children and adolescents: insights from an Italian paediatric cohort using a machine-learning approach

2025

Authors: Fiandrino S, Donà D, Giaquinto C, Poletti P, Tira MD, Paolotti D, Di Chiara C.

Published in: BMC Public Health

Drivers of quasispecies development in SARS-CoV-2 and implications for emergent variants and COVID-19

2025

Authors: Smet M, Berkell M, Górska A, Tacconelli E, Kumar-Singh S, Malhotra-Kumar S.

Published in: Virology

Interference between respiratory viruses in a cohort of healthy young children; a self-controlled case-series study

2025

Authors: Hauser van Westrhenen E, Junquera Guinovart L, Schuurman R, van Boven M, Bonten M, Bruijning Verhagen P.

Presented at: ESPID 2025

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Effect of restrictions, travelling or school holidays on the incidence of COVID-19 in children and adults

2025

Authors: Soeorg H, Abroi A, Päll T, Avi R, Sadikova O, Sepp H, Reisberg T, Lutsar I, Huik K.

Presented at: ESPID 2025

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COVID-19 related hospitalizations in Estonian children and adolescents during 5 SARS-CoV-2 variant periods

2025

Authors: Kerna AL, Huik K, Sepp H, Jõgeda EL, Jõgi P, Lutsar I, Soeorg H.

Presented at: ESPID 2025

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Symptomatology of SARS-CoV-2 versus seasonal Coronavirus infection in healthy young children

2025

Authors: Junquera Guinovart LP, Hauser-van Westrhenen SEM, Schuurman R, Bruijning-Verhagen PCJL.

Presented at: ESPID 2025

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Impact of co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses on illness: Pooled analyses of 11 COVID-19 cohorts

2025

Authors: de Hoog MLA, Hauser-van Westrhenen ESEM, Winkel AMAM, de Jong MD, van Houten MA, van Lelyveld SFL, Eggink D, Euser S, Duijts L, Wildenbeest JG, Schuurman R,

Whole genome sequencing analysis of SARS-CoV-2 household transmission in Chiang Mai, Thailand during 2022–2024

2025

Authors: Inmonthian P, Suebtam P, Sripan P, Wangsaeng N, Kham-Kjing N, Pinasu A, Kohklang N, Collins J, Spyer M, Angkurawaranon C, Ngo-Giang-Huong N, Khamduang W.

Presented at: 32nd International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses conference

Long-term neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological impact of the pandemic in Italian COVID-19 family clusters, including children and parents

2025

Authors: Di Chiara C, Ferrarese M, Boracchini R, Cantarutti A, Tibaldo AL, Stefanni C, Donà D, De Pieri M, Raffagnato A, Tascini B, Miscioscia M, Occhino F, Giaquinto C,

The effect of pre-existing coronavirus antibodies on SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes in exposed household members

2025

Authors: Westerhof I, Sikkema R, Rozhnova G, van Beek J, Koopmans M, Bruijning-Verhagen P.

Published in: The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Immune Profile of Children With Post-COVID-19 Cardiac Contractility Alterations: a Prospective Study

2025

Authors: Di Chiara C, Cantarutti A, Sabatino J, Sirico D, Bonfante F, Le Prevost M, Buonsenso D, Donà D, De Rossi A, Giaquinto C, Petrara MR, Di Salvo G.

Assessing the role of children in the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium using perturbation analysis

2025

Authors: Angeli L, Caetano CP, Franco N, Coletti P, Faes C, Molenberghs G, Beutels P, Abrams S, Willem L, Hens N.

Published in: Nature Communications

Collaborative forecasting of influenza-like illness in Italy: the Influcast experience

2025

Authors: Fiandrino S, Bizzotto A, Guzzetta G, Merler S, Baldo F, Valdano E, Urdiales AM, Bella A, Celino F, Zino L, Rizzo A, Li Y, Perra N, Gioannini C,

Modeling the interplay between disease spread, behaviors, and disease perception with a data-driven approach

2025

Authors: De Gaetano A, Barrat A, Paolotti D.

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences

Overview of mucosal immunity and respiratory infections in children: a focus on Africa

2025

Authors: Mwape RK, Barday MA, van der Zalm MM, Verhagen LM.

Published in: Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Planning and adjusting the COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign to reduce disease burden

2025

Authors: Di Domenico L, Goldberg Y, Colizza V.

Published in: Infectious Disease Modelling

Preserving friendships in school contacts: an algorithm to construct synthetic temporal networks for epidemic modelling

2025

Authors: Calmon L, Colosi E, Bassignana G, Barrat A, Colizza V.

Published in: PLoS Computational Biology

Learning from Post COVID-19 condition for epidemic preparedness: a variable catalogue for future Post-Acute Infection Syndromes

2025

Authors: Górska A, Canziani LM, Rinaldi E, Pana ZD, Beale S, Bai F, Boxma-de Klerk BM, de Bruijn S, Donà D, Ekkelenkamp MB, Incardona F, Mallon P,

Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in children and adults in 2021 and 2022

2025

Authors: Soeorg H, Abroi A, Päll T, Dotsenko L, Jaaniso E, Kaarna K, Lahesaare A, Naaber P, Niglas H, Oopkaup OE, Peterson H, Reisberg T, Sadikova O,

Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices: a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling

2024

Authors: Di Domenico L, Bosetti P, Sabbatini CE, Opatowski L, Colizza V.

Published in: medRxiv (preprint)

A statistical modelling approach for determining the cause of reported respiratory syndromes from internet-based participatory surveillance when influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are co-circulating

2024

Authors: McDonald SA, Jan van Hoek A, Paolotti D, Hooiveld M, Meijer A, de Lange M, Infectieradar team, van Gageldonk-Lafeber A, Wallinga J.

Published in: PLOS Digital Health

Exploring clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in children and adolescents using a machine-learning approach

2024

Authors: Fiandrino S, Donà D, Giaquinto C, Poletti P, Tira MD, Paolotti D, Di Chiara C.

Published in: medRxiv (preprint)

Nonparametric serial interval estimation

2024

Authors: Gressani O, Hens N

Published in: medRxiv (preprint)

Mobility resolution needed to inform predictive epidemic models for spatial transmission from mobile phone data

2024

Authors: Pullano G, Bansal S, Rubrichi S, Colizza V.

Published in: medRxiv (preprint)

Prospects of HIV elimination among men who have sex with men: a systematic review of modeling studies

2024

Authors: Roberts JA, Teslya A, Kretzschmar ME, van de Wijgert JHHM, Rozhnova G.

Published in: medRxiv (preprint)

Bayesian nowcasting with Laplacian-P-splines

2024

Authors: Sumalinab B, Gressani O, Hens N, Faes C.

Published in: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Medical risk classification for severe COVID-19 based on chronic medical conditions: A comparative analysis

2024

Authors: Westerhof I, de Boer A, Lupattelli A, Slurink I, Boldea O, Egeland Nordeng HM, Bosdriesz JR, Pijpers F, van der Loeff MS, Knol M, van de Wijgert J,

Individual and familial factors associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccine uptake in pregnancy: A large-scale registry-based linkage study

2024

Authors: Elyass J, Desalegn A, Trinh NTH, Orangzeb S, Zidan M, Nordeng H, Lupattelli A.

Published in: Vaccine

Flexible Bayesian estimation of incubation times

2024

Authors: Gressani O, Torneri A, Hens N, Faes C.

Published in: American Journal of Epidemiology

The impact of underreported infections on vaccine effectiveness estimates derived from retrospective cohort studies

2024

Authors: Sacco C, Manica M, Marziano V, Fabiani M, Mateo-Urdiales A, Guzzetta G, Merler S, Pezzotti P.

Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology

COVID-19 vaccine uptake and effectiveness by time since vaccination in the Western Cape province, South Africa: An observational cohort study during 2020-2022

2024

Authors: Kassanjee R, Davies M-A, Heekes A, Mahomed H, Hawkridge AJ, Morden E, Jacobs T, Cohen C, Moultrie H, Lessells RJ, et al.

Published in: Vaccines

Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection in Children within the 12 Months Following Mild COVID-19: Insights from a Survey Study

2024

Authors: Di Chiara C, Boracchini R, Cantarutti A, Kakkar F, Oletto A, Padoan A, Donà D, Giaquinto C.

Presented at: ESPID 2024

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