Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Immune suppression in the early stage of COVID-19 disease

  • Wenmin Tian,
  • Nan Zhang,
  • Ronghua Jin,
  • Yingmei Feng,
  • Siyuan Wang,
  • Shuaixin Gao,
  • Ruqin Gao,
  • Guizhen Wu,
  • Di Tian,
  • Wenjie Tan,
  • Yang Chen,
  • George Fu Gao,
  • Catherine C. L. Wong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19706-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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How COVID-19 pathology differs from other drivers of pneumonia is unclear. Here the authors analyze urine from patients with COVID-19 and identify an immunosuppressive protein expression pattern that is distinct from the pattern in healthy individuals or patients with non-COVID-19 pneumonia.