Heliyon (Jan 2024)

Case Report of a Young Adult with Fatal COVID-19 and Abundant SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein and Lipofuscin Accumulation in Tissues

  • Rosalia Lira,
  • César Luna-Rivero,
  • Francina Valezka Morales-Bolaños,
  • José Luis Sandoval-Gutiérrez,
  • Elsa Romelia Moreno-Verduzco,
  • Angélica Maldonado-Rodriguez,
  • Jesús Miguel Torres-Flores,
  • Martha Yocupicio-Monroy,
  • Edgar E. Sevilla-Reyes

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
p. e23485

Abstract

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This is a case report of a young adult who died of COVID-19 twelve days after admission, with coronavirus nucleocapsid protein and lipofuscin found in the heart and kidney tissues, providing further evidence of the role of SARS-CoV-2 in cellular senescence.

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