Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Marked T cell activation, senescence, exhaustion and skewing towards TH17 in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia

  • Sara De Biasi,
  • Marianna Meschiari,
  • Lara Gibellini,
  • Caterina Bellinazzi,
  • Rebecca Borella,
  • Lucia Fidanza,
  • Licia Gozzi,
  • Anna Iannone,
  • Domenico Lo Tartaro,
  • Marco Mattioli,
  • Annamaria Paolini,
  • Marianna Menozzi,
  • Jovana Milić,
  • Giacomo Franceschi,
  • Riccardo Fantini,
  • Roberto Tonelli,
  • Marco Sita,
  • Mario Sarti,
  • Tommaso Trenti,
  • Lucio Brugioni,
  • Luca Cicchetti,
  • Fabio Facchinetti,
  • Antonello Pietrangelo,
  • Enrico Clini,
  • Massimo Girardis,
  • Giovanni Guaraldi,
  • Cristina Mussini,
  • Andrea Cossarizza

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17292-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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COVID-19 is a serious pandemic threat to public health, but insights on the pathophysiological and immunological conditions are only emerging. Here the authors use multi-color flow cytometry to characterize CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in peripheral blood from 39 COVID-19 patients in Italy to report altered T cell activation, function and polarization.