Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Treatment of COVID-19 with remdesivir in the absence of humoral immunity: a case report

  • Matthew S. Buckland,
  • James B. Galloway,
  • Caoimhe Nic Fhogartaigh,
  • Luke Meredith,
  • Nicholas M. Provine,
  • Stuart Bloor,
  • Ane Ogbe,
  • Wioleta M. Zelek,
  • Anna Smielewska,
  • Anna Yakovleva,
  • Tiffeney Mann,
  • Laura Bergamaschi,
  • Lorinda Turner,
  • Frederica Mescia,
  • Erik J. M. Toonen,
  • Carl-Philipp Hackstein,
  • Hossain Delowar Akther,
  • Vinicius Adriano Vieira,
  • Lourdes Ceron-Gutierrez,
  • Jimstan Periselneris,
  • Sorena Kiani-Alikhan,
  • Sofia Grigoriadou,
  • Devan Vaghela,
  • Sara E. Lear,
  • M. Estée Török,
  • William L. Hamilton,
  • Joanne Stockton,
  • Josh Quick,
  • Peter Nelson,
  • Michael Hunter,
  • Tanya I. Coulter,
  • Lisa Devlin,
  • CITIID-NIHR COVID-19 BioResource Collaboration,
  • MRC-Toxicology Unit COVID-19 Consortium,
  • John R. Bradley,
  • Kenneth G. C. Smith,
  • Willem H. Ouwehand,
  • Lise Estcourt,
  • Heli Harvala,
  • David J. Roberts,
  • Ian B. Wilkinson,
  • Nick Screaton,
  • Nicholas Loman,
  • Rainer Doffinger,
  • Paul A. Lyons,
  • B. Paul Morgan,
  • Ian G. Goodfellow,
  • Paul Klenerman,
  • Paul J. Lehner,
  • Nicholas J. Matheson,
  • James E. D. Thaventhiran

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19761-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Remdesivir is under evaluation for treatment of COVID-19 in clinical trials. Here, the authors report results of remdesivir treatment in a patient with COVID-19 and the genetic antibody deficiency XLA. They show a temporally correlated clinical and virological response, suggesting that remdesivir can reduce SARS-CoV-2 replication in patients.