Article
Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 transcriptional activity in cardiomyocytes of COVID-19 patients without clinical signs of cardiac involvement
2020-08-26
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Cardiovascular complication in patients affected by novel Coronavirus respiratory disease (COVID-19) are increasingly recognized. However, although a cardiac tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for inflammatory cells in autopsy heart samples of COVID-19 patients has been reported, the presence of the virus in cardiomyocytes has not been documented yet. <h4>Methods</h4> We investigated for SARS-CoV-2 presence...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8549e438-8a9b-5174-9b64-a889c30d4823
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.24.20170175
