Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Organ-specific genome diversity of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2

  • Jolien Van Cleemput,
  • Willem van Snippenberg,
  • Laurens Lambrechts,
  • Amélie Dendooven,
  • Valentino D’Onofrio,
  • Liesbeth Couck,
  • Wim Trypsteen,
  • Jan Vanrusselt,
  • Sebastiaan Theuns,
  • Nick Vereecke,
  • Thierry P. P. van den Bosch,
  • Martin Lammens,
  • Ann Driessen,
  • Ruth Achten,
  • Ken R. Bracke,
  • Wim Van den Broeck,
  • Jan Von der Thüsen,
  • Hans Nauwynck,
  • Jo Van Dorpe,
  • Sarah Gerlo,
  • Piet Maes,
  • Janneke Cox,
  • Linos Vandekerckhove

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26884-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here the authors provide a detailed virological analysis of thirteen postmortem COVID-19 cases, including presence of replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 in extrapulmonary organs and tissue-specific patterns of SARS-CoV-2 genome diversity of an immunocompromised patient.