COVID-19-associated fungal infections

M Hoenigl, D Seidel, R Sprute, C Cunha… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated invasive fungal infections are an
important complication in a substantial number of critically ill, hospitalized patients with …

Natural killer cells in antiviral immunity

NK Björkström, B Strunz, HG Ljunggren - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in innate immune responses to viral infections.
Here, we review recent insights into the role of NK cells in viral infections, with particular …

Monocytes and Macrophages in COVID-19

R Knoll, JL Schultze, J Schulte-Schrepping - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is a contagious viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that led to an ongoing
pandemic with massive global health and socioeconomic consequences. The disease is …

Pathogenesis of respiratory viral and fungal coinfections

F Salazar, E Bignell, GD Brown, PC Cook… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Individuals suffering from severe viral respiratory tract infections have recently emerged as
“at risk” groups for developing invasive fungal infections. Influenza virus is one of the most …

ACE2 protein expression in lung tissues of severe COVID-19 infection

A Gheware, A Ray, D Rana, P Bajpai, A Nambirajan… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is a key host protein by which severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) enters and multiplies within cells …

Dendritic cell deficiencies persist seven months after SARS-CoV-2 infection

A Pérez-Gómez, J Vitallé, C Gasca-Capote… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2 infection induces
an exacerbated inflammation driven by innate immunity components. Dendritic cells (DCs) …

Prolonged activation of nasal immune cell populations and development of tissue-resident SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cell responses following COVID-19

AHE Roukens, CR Pothast, M König, W Huisman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Systemic immune cell dynamics during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are
extensively documented, but these are less well studied in the (upper) respiratory tract …

Impaired function and delayed regeneration of dendritic cells in COVID-19

E Winheim, L Rinke, K Lutz, A Reischer… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Disease manifestations in COVID-19 range from mild to severe illness associated with a
dysregulated innate immune response. Alterations in function and regeneration of dendritic …

Host recovery from respiratory viral infection

X Wei, H Narasimhan, B Zhu… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Emerging and re-emerging respiratory viral infections pose a tremendous threat to human
society, as exemplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Upon viral invasion of the …

Hallmarks of immune response in COVID-19: Exploring dysregulation and exhaustion

A Mazzoni, L Salvati, L Maggi, F Annunziato… - Seminars in …, 2021 - Elsevier
One and half year following the occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic, significant efforts from
laboratories all over the world generated a huge amount of data describing the prototypical …