Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

De novo emergence of a remdesivir resistance mutation during treatment of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in an immunocompromised patient: a case report

  • Shiv Gandhi,
  • Jonathan Klein,
  • Alexander J. Robertson,
  • Mario A. Peña-Hernández,
  • Michelle J. Lin,
  • Pavitra Roychoudhury,
  • Peiwen Lu,
  • John Fournier,
  • David Ferguson,
  • Shah A. K. Mohamed Bakhash,
  • M. Catherine Muenker,
  • Ariktha Srivathsan,
  • Elsio A. Wunder,
  • Nicholas Kerantzas,
  • Wenshuai Wang,
  • Brett Lindenbach,
  • Anna Pyle,
  • Craig B. Wilen,
  • Onyema Ogbuagu,
  • Alexander L. Greninger,
  • Akiko Iwasaki,
  • Wade L. Schulz,
  • Albert I. Ko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29104-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors identify and validate the emergence of a SARS-CoV-2 resistance mutation to Remdesivir, associated with virological recrudesce in an immunocompromised patient with persistent COVID-19.