Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

SARS-CoV-2 escape from cytotoxic T cells during long-term COVID-19

  • Oksana V. Stanevich,
  • Evgeniia I. Alekseeva,
  • Maria Sergeeva,
  • Artem V. Fadeev,
  • Kseniya S. Komissarova,
  • Anna A. Ivanova,
  • Tamara S. Simakova,
  • Kirill A. Vasilyev,
  • Anna-Polina Shurygina,
  • Marina A. Stukova,
  • Ksenia R. Safina,
  • Elena R. Nabieva,
  • Sofya K. Garushyants,
  • Galya V. Klink,
  • Evgeny A. Bakin,
  • Jullia V. Zabutova,
  • Anastasia N. Kholodnaia,
  • Olga V. Lukina,
  • Irina A. Skorokhod,
  • Viktoria V. Ryabchikova,
  • Nadezhda V. Medvedeva,
  • Dmitry A. Lioznov,
  • Daria M. Danilenko,
  • Dmitriy M. Chudakov,
  • Andrey B. Komissarov,
  • Georgii A. Bazykin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34033-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here, the authors report accelerated intrahost evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an immunocompromised patient with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma with 318 days long COVID-19, and show that changes in the viral genome resulted in escape from T cellular immune response.