mBio (Feb 2021)

Do an Altered Gut Microbiota and an Associated Leaky Gut Affect COVID-19 Severity?

  • Heenam Stanley Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03022-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been declared a pandemic, has exhibited a wide range of severity worldwide. Although this global variation is largely affected by socio-medical situations in each country, there is also high individual-level variation attributable to elderliness and certain underlying medical conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.