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We aimed to comprehensively assess the association between short-term exposure to wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      and the incidence and mortality of respiratory transmitted diseases in children and adolescents.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods and findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Data on daily counts of incident and mortality cases of respiratory transmitted diseases in persons aged 4\u201324 years old were collected from China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention, covering 501 cities from 2008 to 2019. Daily concentrations of wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      were estimated using machine learning and chemical transport models at a 0.25\u00b0\u00d70.25\u00b0 spatial resolution. We used time-stratified case-crossover design with conditional logistic regression to estimate the association between short-term exposures to wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      and incidence and mortality of respiratory transmitted diseases, adjusting for temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, and total PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      . There were 6,089,271 incident cases and 1,034 mortality cases of 10 respiratory transmitted diseases included in our analyses. Each 5 \u03bcg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      increase in the lag 0\u201328-day (average of current day and previous 28 days) for wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      was associated with a 6.8% (95%CI: 5.0%, 8.7%) increase in the daily incidence rate of respiratory transmitted diseases, which is greater than that of a 1.2% (1.0%, 1.4%) increase associated with the same increase of non-wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      . A 5 \u03bcg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      increase in wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      was associated with a 28.6% (21.0%, 36.8%), 5.2% (2.3%, 8.3%), 12.6% (9.5%, 15.8%), and 13.6% (5.6%, 22.2%) increase in the incidence of seasonal influenza, scarlet fever, rubella, and measles, respectively. Although wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      constitutes only 2.7% of the total PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      , it contributes significantly to respiratory transmitted diseases, accounting for 10.8% of all PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      -associated cases. In areas where the annual concentration of wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      is lower than 1.5 \u03bcg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      , the proportion of cases associated with wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      reached 29.7%. Study limitations include potential exposure misclassification from using city-average wildfire PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      as a proxy for individual exposure and an inability to adjust for some potential confounders.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Short-term exposure to wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      was associated with increased incidence of respiratory transmitted diseases, surpassing the impact observed with non-wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5.<\/jats:sub>\n                      This phenomenon is not restricted to regions with high pollutant concentrations; even populations residing in areas with lower concentrations of wildfire-related PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      are at an increased risk of these respiratory conditions. 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