O Ignatyeva, V Gostev, A Taraskina, I Tsvetkova, P Pavlova, O Sulian, V Ageevets, D Likholetova, P Chulkova, E Nikitina, L Matkava, M Terekhov, D Lisovaya, D Kashtanova, M Ivanov, O Kalinogorskaya, A Avdeeva, A Zhirkov, O Goleva, S Zakharenko, K Zhdanov, V Strizheletsky, Y Gomon, A Kruglov, O Ni, T Noskova, I Gorbova, G Cherenkova, I Shlyk, A Afanasyev, V Yudin, V Makarov, S Sidorenko, S Yudin
COVID-19 is caused by an airborne virus, SARS-CoV-2. The upper respiratory tract (URT) is, therefore, the first system to endure the attack. Inhabited by an assemblage of microbial communities, a healthy URT wards off the invasion. However, once invaded, it becomes destabilised, which could be crucial to the establishment and progression of the infection. We examined 696 URT samples collected from 285 COVID-19 patients at three time-points throughout their hospital stay and 100 URT samples from 100 healthy controls...
February 22, 2024: Beneficial Microbes