Nature Communications (May 2021)

Human kidney is a target for novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection

  • Bo Diao,
  • Chenhui Wang,
  • Rongshuai Wang,
  • Zeqing Feng,
  • Ji Zhang,
  • Han Yang,
  • Yingjun Tan,
  • Huiming Wang,
  • Changsong Wang,
  • Liang Liu,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Yueping Liu,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Zilin Yuan,
  • Xiaotao Hou,
  • Liang Ren,
  • Yuzhang Wu,
  • Yongwen Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22781-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can lead to acute kidney injury. The authors describe that SARS-COV-2 can directly infect human kidney, possibly mediating tubular pathogenesis.