Clinical Significance of the Correlation between Changes in the Major Intestinal Bacteria Species and COVID-19 Severity

• Published in: Engineering (Beijing, China) Vol. 6; no. 10; pp. 1178 - 1184
• Main Authors: Tang, Lingling, Gu, Silan, Gong, Yiwen, Li, Bo, Lu, Haifeng, Li, Qiang, Zhang, Ruhong, Gao, Xiang, Wu, Zhengjie, Zhang, Jiaying, Zhang, Yuanyuan, Li, Lanjuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2020; THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company; Elsevier
• Subjects: COVID-19; Intestinal microbiota; Research Coronavirus Disease 2019; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Intestinal microbiota

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious infectious disease. Similar to H7N9 infection, pneumonia and cytokine storm are typical clinical manifestations of COVID-19. Our previous studies found that H7N9 patients had intestinal dysbiosis. However, the relationship between the gut mi...