Planetary Health: What You Need to Know as a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Doctor

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Third Department of Paediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Ippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Amalia Children's Hospital.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

Nina Schöbi et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 1;43(12):e445-e448.

doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000004517. Epub 2024 Sep 12.

¹ From the Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Third Department of Paediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Ippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Amalia Children's Hospital.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Keywords: pediatric infectious diseases; planetary health.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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