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RETRACTED ARTICLE: SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion
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The authors have retracted this article [1]. After the publication of this article, it came to the authors attention that in order to support the conclusions of the study, the authors should have used primary T cells instead of T cell lines. Additionally, there are concerns that the flow cytometry methodology applied here was flawed. These points resulted in the conclusions being considered invalid.
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“Some studies reported that lymphocytopenia might be related to mortality, especially in patients with low levels of CD3, CD4, and CD8 T lymphocytes.(4,5) Lymphocytopenia was also found in the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) cases.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wang, X., Xu, W., Hu, G., Xia, S., Sun, Z., Liu, Z., Xie, Y., Zhang, R., Jiang, S., & Lu, L.
- Venue
- Cellular & Molecular Immunology
- Published
- 2020-04-07
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 554-554
- ISSN
- 1672-7681 (ISSN-L)
- 2042-0226
- OpenAlex
- W3198161415
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 4.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Status
- Retracted
- Open access
- hybrid
- Licence
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (tdm)
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (vor)
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