Elevated plasma levels of selective cytokines in COVID-19 patients reflect viral load and lung injury

• Published in: National science review Vol. 7; no. 6; pp. 1003 - 1011
• Main Authors: Liu, Yingxia, Zhang, Cong, Huang, Fengming, Yang, Yang, Wang, Fuxiang, Yuan, Jing, Zhang, Zheng, Qin, Yuhao, Li, Xiaoyun, Zhao, Dandan, Li, Shunwang, Tan, Shuguang, Wang, Zhaoqin, Li, Jinxiu, Shen, Chenguang, Li, Jianming, Peng, Ling, Wu, Weibo, Cao, Mengli, Xing, Li, Xu, Zhixiang, Chen, Li, Zhou, Congzhao, Liu, William J, Liu, Lei, Jiang, Chengyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Oxford University Press 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Special Section: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; cytokine storm; 2019-nCoV; IP-10; IL-17

Abstract A recent outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China was found to be caused by a 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2 or HCoV-19). We previously reported the clinical features of 12 patients with 2019-nCoV infections in Shenzhen, China. To further understand the pathogenesis of COVID-1...