Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, P Bastard, A Cobat, JL Casanova - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers
hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases …

Immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

J Chou, PG Thomas, AG Randolph - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Children and adolescents exhibit a broad range of clinical outcomes from SARS-CoV-2
infection, with the majority having minimal to mild symptoms. Additionally, some succumb to …

Recessive inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in children with COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, D Matuozzo, J Le Pen, D Lee… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Recessive or dominant inborn errors of type I interferon (IFN) immunity can underlie critical
COVID-19 pneumonia in unvaccinated adults. The risk of COVID-19 pneumonia in …

Humans with inherited MyD88 and IRAK-4 deficiencies are predisposed to hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia

A García-García, R Pérez de Diego, C Flores… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Disclosures: C. Flores reported grants from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of
Science and Innovation, and Cabildo Insular de Tenerife outside the submitted work. J …

[HTML][HTML] Disease severity during SARS-COV-2 reinfection: a nationwide study

AA Mensah, J Lacy, J Stowe, G Seghezzo… - Journal of Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective We aimed to look at the burden of disease caused by SARS-COV-2 reinfections
and identified potential risk factors for disease severity. Methods We used national …

Interferon induction, evasion, and paradoxical roles during SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

C Chiale, TT Greene, EI Zuniga - Immunological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the causative agent of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), has caused millions of deaths in the past two years …

Clinical implications of host genetic variation and susceptibility to severe or critical COVID-19

CI van der Made, MG Netea, FL van der Veerdonk… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, important insights
have been gained into virus biology and the host factors that modulate the human immune …

Why females do better: the X chromosomal TLR7 gene-dose effect in COVID-19

AE Spiering, TJ de Vries - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A male sex bias has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic, fitting to the sex-biased pattern in
other viral infections. Males are 2.84 times more often admitted to the ICU and mortality is …

Innate and adaptive immunity during SARS-CoV-2 infection: biomolecular cellular markers and mechanisms

B Brown, V Ojha, I Fricke, SA Al-Sheboul, C Imarogbe… - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was caused by a positive sense single-
stranded RNA (ssRNA) severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

[HTML][HTML] Host cell-intrinsic innate immune recognition of SARS-CoV-2

EA Madden, MS Diamond - Current opinion in virology, 2022 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged at the end of
2019 and caused the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Basic and clinical …