Dana Costigan, Joe Fenn, Sandi Yen, Nicholas Ilott, Samuel Bullers, Jessica Hale, William Greenhalf, Emily Conibear, Aleksandra Koycheva, Kieran Madon, Ishrat Jahan, Ming Huang, Anjna Badhan, Eleanor Parker, Carolina Rosadas, Kelsey Jones, Myra McClure, Richard Tedder, Graham Taylor, Kenneth J Baillie, Malcolm G Semple, Peter Jm Openshaw, Claire Pearson, Jethro Johnson, Ajit Lalvani, Emily E Thornton
The relationship between gastrointestinal tract infection, the host immune response and clinical outcome of disease is not well understood in COVID-19. We sought to understand the effect of intestinal immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 on patient outcomes including magnitude of systemic antibody induction. Combining two prospective cohort studies, ISARIC4C and INSTINCT, we acquired samples from 88 COVID-19 cases representing the full spectrum of disease severity and analysed viral RNA and host gut cytokine responses in the context of clinical and virological outcome measures...
November 21, 2023: Mucosal Immunology