[HTML][HTML] Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, P Bastard, A Cobat, JL Casanova - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers
hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases …

[HTML][HTML] Immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

J Chou, PG Thomas, AG Randolph - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Children and adolescents exhibit a broad range of clinical outcomes from SARS-CoV-2
infection, with the majority having minimal to mild symptoms. Additionally, some succumb to …

The risk of COVID-19 death is much greater and age dependent with type I IFN autoantibodies

J Manry, P Bastard, A Gervais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection fatality rate (IFR)
doubles with every 5 y of age from childhood onward. Circulating autoantibodies …

[HTML][HTML] Autoantibodies against chemokines post-SARS-CoV-2 infection correlate with disease course

J Muri, V Cecchinato, A Cavalli, AA Shanbhag… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 associates with diverse
symptoms, which can persist for months. While antiviral antibodies are protective, those …

Mechanisms of viral inflammation and disease in humans

JL Casanova, L Abel - Science, 2021 - science.org
Disease and accompanying inflammation are uncommon outcomes of viral infection in
humans. Clinical inflammation occurs if steady-state cell-intrinsic and leukocytic immunity to …

[HTML][HTML] From rare disorders of immunity to common determinants of infection: Following the mechanistic thread

JL Casanova, L Abel - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The immense interindividual clinical variability during any infection is a long-standing
enigma. Inborn errors of IFN-γ and IFN-α/β immunity underlying rare infections with weakly …

Human autoantibodies underlying infectious diseases

A Puel, P Bastard, J Bustamante… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
The vast interindividual clinical variability observed in any microbial infection—ranging from
silent infection to lethal disease—is increasingly being explained by human genetic and …

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with critical influenza pneumonia

Q Zhang, A Pizzorno, L Miorin, P Bastard… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons (IFNs) can underlie critical COVID-19
pneumonia and yellow fever vaccine disease. We report here on 13 patients harboring …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 and innate immunity: the good, the bad, and the “goldilocks”

BL Sievers, MTK Cheng, K Csiba, B Meng… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
An ancient conflict between hosts and pathogens has driven the innate and adaptive arms of
immunity. Knowledge about this interplay can not only help us identify biological …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to systems-level immunomics

L Bonaguro, J Schulte-Schrepping, T Ulas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The immune system is highly complex and distributed throughout an organism, with
hundreds to thousands of cell states existing in parallel with diverse molecular pathways …