Health
Gut’s immune response in COVID-19 may not provide efficient protection of other organs – EurekAlert
COVID-19 can enter the body via the lungs and gut, and a new study suggests the gut’s immune response alone may not provide adequate whole-body immunity from the…
Our guts may not provide long-lasting systemic immunity from COVID-19, which is where immune cells circulate through the body to provide protection to other organs, finds a new study published in Frontiers in Immunology. An analysis of blood samples from patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 revealed that immune cells circulating in the blood, which were triggered by the gut’s response to infection, were limited in number when compared to immune cells that had been triggered elsewhere in the body.
“Although…
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