Article
Clinical implications of host genetic variation and susceptibility to severe or critical COVID-19.
Genome medicine - 19 Aug 2022
van der Made Caspar I, Netea Mihai G, van der Veerdonk Frank L, Hoischen Alexander
Abstract excerpt
Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, important insights have been gained into virus biology and the host factors that modulate the human immune response against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). COVID-19 displays a highly variable clinical picture that ranges from asymptomatic disease to lethal pneumonia. Apart from well-established general risk factors...
Topics
- Antiviral Agents
- COVID-19
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Male
- Pandemics
- SARS-CoV-2