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Case report: hepatitis in a child infected with SARS-CoV-2 presenting toll-like receptor 7 Gln11Leu single nucleotide polymorphism.
Virology journal - 5 Sept 2021
Pessoa Natália Lima, Bentes Aline Almeida, de Carvalho Andrea Lucchesi, de Souza Silva Thaís Bárbara, Alves Pedro Augusto, de Sousa Reis Erik Vinicius, Rodrigues Tayse Andrade, Kroon Erna Geessien, Campos Marco Antônio
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BACKGROUND: Covid-19 has the respiratory tract as the main target of infection, and patients present mainly dyspnea, pneumonia, dry cough, and fever. Nevertheless, organs outside the respiratory tract had been reported in recent studies, including the gastrointestinal tract and liver. The host innate immune system recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) through their pattern recognition receptor...
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