Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of host response to SARS-CoV-2 pulmonary infection

  • Niyati Desai,
  • Azfar Neyaz,
  • Annamaria Szabolcs,
  • Angela R. Shih,
  • Jonathan H. Chen,
  • Vishal Thapar,
  • Linda T. Nieman,
  • Alexander Solovyov,
  • Arnav Mehta,
  • David J. Lieb,
  • Anupriya S. Kulkarni,
  • Christopher Jaicks,
  • Katherine H. Xu,
  • Michael J. Raabe,
  • Christopher J. Pinto,
  • Dejan Juric,
  • Ivan Chebib,
  • Robert B. Colvin,
  • Arthur Y. Kim,
  • Robert Monroe,
  • Sarah E. Warren,
  • Patrick Danaher,
  • Jason W. Reeves,
  • Jingjing Gong,
  • Erroll H. Rueckert,
  • Benjamin D. Greenbaum,
  • Nir Hacohen,
  • Stephen M. Lagana,
  • Miguel N. Rivera,
  • Lynette M. Sholl,
  • James R. Stone,
  • David T. Ting,
  • Vikram Deshpande

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20139-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Understanding the pathology in the lungs of patients with COVID-19 might provide clues as to the susceptibility of patients and how the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be fatal. Here the authors analyze cadaveric pulmonary tissue and show one group with high viral load, early death, inflammation and inflammatory damage, and another with low viral load, longer duration of disease, and more M2-like polarization and fibrotic lung damage.