Back to the future: lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic

KR Short, K Kedzierska… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
2018 marks the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed~ 50
million people worldwide. The severity of this pandemic resulted from a complex interplay …

The CD8 T cell response to respiratory virus infections

ME Schmidt, SM Varga - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Humans are highly susceptible to infection with respiratory viruses including respiratory
syncytial virus (RSV), influenza virus, human metapneumovirus, rhinovirus, coronavirus, and …

Prior vaccination promotes early activation of memory T cells and enhances immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection

MM Painter, TS Johnston, KA Lundgreen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection of vaccinated
individuals is increasingly common but rarely results in severe disease, likely due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19

I Thevarajan, THO Nguyen, M Koutsakos, J Druce… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
To the Editor—We report the kinetics of immune responses in relation to clinical and
virological features of a patient with mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Immune cell profiling of COVID-19 patients in the recovery stage by single-cell sequencing

W Wen, W Su, H Tang, W Le, X Zhang, Y Zheng, X Liu… - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has recently affected over 1,200,000 people
and killed more than 60,000. The key immune cell subsets change and their states during …

Immunological and inflammatory profiles in mild and severe cases of COVID-19

JW Song, C Zhang, X Fan, FP Meng, Z Xu, P Xia… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract COVID-19 is associated with 5.1% mortality. Although the virological,
epidemiological, clinical, and management outcome features of COVID-19 patients have …

Single-cell analysis of two severe COVID-19 patients reveals a monocyte-associated and tocilizumab-responding cytokine storm

C Guo, B Li, H Ma, X Wang, P Cai, Q Yu, L Zhu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Several studies show that the immunosuppressive drugs targeting the interleukin-6 (IL-6)
receptor, including tocilizumab, ameliorate lethal inflammatory responses in COVID-19 …

Suboptimal SARS-CoV-2−specific CD8+ T cell response associated with the prominent HLA-A*02:01 phenotype

JR Habel, THO Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
An improved understanding of human T cell-mediated immunity in COVID-19 is important for
optimizing therapeutic and vaccine strategies. Experience with influenza shows that …

Highly pathogenic coronavirus N protein aggravates inflammation by MASP-2-mediated lectin complement pathway overactivation

T Gao, L Zhu, H Liu, X Zhang, T Wang, Y Fu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Excessive inflammatory responses contribute to the pathogenesis and lethality of highly
pathogenic human coronaviruses, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In this …

Blood molecular markers associated with COVID‐19 immunopathology and multi‐organ damage

YM Chen, Y Zheng, Y Yu, Y Wang, Q Huang… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
COVID‐19 is characterized by dysregulated immune responses, metabolic dysfunction and
adverse effects on the function of multiple organs. To understand host responses to COVID …