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Immunological and inflammatory profiles in mild and severe cases of COVID-19

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Song, Jin-Wen, Zhang, Chao, Fan, Xing, Meng, Fan-Ping, Xu, Zhe, Xia, Peng, Cao, Wen-Jing, Yang, Tao, Dai, Xiao-Peng, Wang, Si-Yu, Xu, Ruo-Nan, Jiang, Tian-Jun, Li, Wen-Gang, Zhang, Da-Wei, Zhao, Peng, Shi, Ming, Agrati, Chiara, Ippolito, Giuseppe, Maeurer, Markus, Zumla, Alimuddin, Wang, Fu-Sheng, Zhang, Ji-Yuan·2020·Nature Communications

Abstract

COVID-19 is associated with 5.1% mortality. Although the virological, epidemiological, clinical, and management outcome features of COVID-19 patients have been defined rapidly, the inflammatory and immune profiles require definition as they influence pathogenesis and clinical expression of COVID-19. Here we show lymphopenia, selective loss of CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells and NK cells, excessive T-cell activation and high expression of T-cell inhibitory molecules are more prominent in severe cases than in those with mild disease. CD8+ T cells in patients with severe disease express high levels of cytotoxic molecules. Histochemical studies of lung tissue from one fatality show sub-anatomical distributions of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and massive infiltration of T cells and macrophages. Thus, aberrant activation and dysregulation of CD8+ T cells occur in patients with severe COVID-19 disease, an effect that might be for pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection and indicate that immune-based targets for therapeutic interventions constitute a promising treatment for severe COVID-19 patients.

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Song, J.-W., Zhang, C., Fan, X., Meng, F.-P., Xu, Z., Xia, P., Cao, W.-J., Yang, T., Dai, X.-P., Wang, S.-Y., Xu, R.-N., Jiang, T.-J., Li, W.-G., Zhang, D.-W., Zhao, P., Shi, M., Agrati, C., Ippolito, G., Maeurer, M., Zumla, A., Wang, F.-S., & Zhang, J.-Y.
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Nature Communications
Published
2020-07-08
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
3410-3410
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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394
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27
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10.47
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journal article
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en
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Song, J.-W., Zhang, C., Fan, X., Meng, F.-P., Xu, Z., Xia, P., Cao, W.-J., Yang, T., Dai, X.-P., Wang, S.-Y., Xu, R.-N., Jiang, T.-J., Li, W.-G., Zhang, D.-W., Zhao, P., Shi, M., Agrati, C., Ippolito, G., Maeurer, M., . . . Zhang, J.-Y. (2020). Immunological and inflammatory profiles in mild and severe cases of COVID-19. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17240-2

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