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Metabolic dysregulation in term infants from SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers

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Raw data from metabolomics experiments are available at https://zenodo.org under accessory number https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7585114. XCMS software (http://metlin.scripps.edu/xcms/).

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to parents who agreed to participate in this study and the nursery staff who helped to collect the samples.

Funding

This work was supported by the Health Research Institute Carlos III (Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Innovation) and co-funded by the European Union [PI18/01292, CD19/00037, CM20/00187, and CPII21/00003] and the Health Research Institute La Fe, Spain [grant number 2019-050-1_CRC].

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  1. Neonatal Research Unit, Health Research Institute Hospital La Fe, University Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Avda. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain

    Mari Merce Cascant-Vilaplana, Inmaculada Lara-Cantón, Victoria Ramos-Garcia, Alejandro Pinilla-González, Álvaro Solaz-García, Purificación Marín-Reina, Marta Aguar, Laura Torrejón-Rodríguez, Máximo Vento, Julia Kuligowski & María Cernada

  2. Leitat Technological Center, Valencia, Spain

    Guillermo Quintás

  3. Analytical Unit, Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain

    Guillermo Quintás

  4. Division of Neonatology, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain

    Purificación Marín-Reina, Marta Aguar, Máximo Vento & María Cernada

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MMCV and ILC contributed equally to the study. ILC, APG, ASG, PMR, LTR, and MAG: data curation, writing–review and editing. MMCV, VRG, and GQ: formal analysis, writing–review and editing. MV, JK, and MC: conceptualization, supervision, writing–review and editing. All authors approved the final manuscript as submitted and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

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The study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Biomedical Research of the Health Research Institute La Fe (Valencia, Spain) with approval number #2019-037-1 and 2020-269-1.

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Cascant-Vilaplana, M.M., Lara-Cantón, I., Ramos-Garcia, V. et al. Metabolic dysregulation in term infants from SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers. World J Pediatr 19, 912–917 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12519-023-00735-5

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