Communications Biology (Dec 2020)

The kinetics of humoral response and its relationship with the disease severity in COVID-19

  • Lili Ren,
  • Lulu Zhang,
  • De Chang,
  • Junwen Wang,
  • Yongfeng Hu,
  • Hong Chen,
  • Li Guo,
  • Chao Wu,
  • Conghui Wang,
  • Yingying Wang,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Geng Wang,
  • Siyuan Yang,
  • Charles S. Dela Cruz,
  • Lokesh Sharma,
  • Linghang Wang,
  • Dingyu Zhang,
  • Jianwei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01526-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Lili Ren et al. investigate antibody response from 176 COVID-19 patients who presented different stages of their disease. This study suggests the late onset of antibody response as a risk factor for disease severity and a limited role of antibody titers in predicting the disease severity of COVID-19.