mBio (Apr 2021)

Analysis of the Long-Term Impact on Cellular Immunity in COVID-19-Recovered Individuals Reveals a Profound NKT Cell Impairment

  • Jia Liu,
  • Xuecheng Yang,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Ziwei Li,
  • Hui Deng,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Shue Xiong,
  • Junyi He,
  • Xuemei Feng,
  • Chunxia Guo,
  • Weixian Wang,
  • Gennadiy Zelinskyy,
  • Mirko Trilling,
  • Kathrin Sutter,
  • Tina Senff,
  • Christopher Menne,
  • Joerg Timm,
  • Yanfang Zhang,
  • Fei Deng,
  • Yinping Lu,
  • Jun Wu,
  • Mengji Lu,
  • Dongliang Yang,
  • Ulf Dittmer,
  • Baoju Wang,
  • Xin Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00085-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2

Abstract

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Wuhan was the very first city hit by SARS-CoV-2. Accordingly, the patients who experienced the longest phase of convalescence following COVID-19 reside here.