The immunology of long COVID

DM Altmann, EM Whettlock, S Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Long COVID is the patient-coined term for the disease entity whereby persistent symptoms
ensue in a significant proportion of those who have had COVID-19, whether asymptomatic …

Risk factors of severe COVID-19: a review of host, viral and environmental factors

L Zsichla, V Müller - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The clinical course and outcome of COVID-19 are highly variable, ranging from
asymptomatic infections to severe disease and death. Understanding the risk factors of …

Circulating anti-nuclear autoantibodies in COVID-19 survivors predict long COVID symptoms

K Son, R Jamil, A Chowdhury… - European …, 2023 - publications.ersnet.org
Background Autoimmunity has been reported in patients with severe coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19). We investigated whether anti-nuclear/extractable-nuclear antibodies …

Proteomics of fibrin amyloid microclots in long COVID/post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) shows many entrapped pro-inflammatory molecules that may also …

A Kruger, M Vlok, S Turner, C Venter… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - Springer
Background Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also now known as long COVID,
has become a major global health and economic burden. Previously, we provided evidence …

Postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children

S Rao, RS Gross, S Mohandas, CR Stein, A Case… - …, 2024 - publications.aap.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant medical, social,
and economic impacts globally, both in the short and long term. Although most individuals …

Characterizing long COVID in children and adolescents

RS Gross, T Thaweethai, LC Kleinman, JN Snowden… - JAMA, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Most research to understand postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection
(PASC), or long COVID, has focused on adults, with less known about this complex …

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and long COVID: the SARS-CoV-2 viral superantigen hypothesis

M Noval Rivas, RA Porritt, MH Cheng, I Bahar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a febrile pediatric inflammatory
disease that may develop weeks after initial SARS-CoV-2 infection or exposure. MIS-C …

Molecular mimicry and autoimmunity in the time of COVID-19

M Rojas, M Herrán, C Ramírez-Santana… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases are commonly implicated as potential initiators of autoimmune diseases
(ADs) and represent the most commonly known factor in the development of autoimmunity in …

Autoantibodies-enemies, and/or potential allies?

H Ma, C Murphy, CE Loscher… - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Autoantibodies are well known as potentially highly harmful antibodies which attack the host
via binding to self-antigens, thus causing severe associated diseases and symptoms (eg …