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Gut microbiome may play a part in severe COVID-19 – News-Medical.Net
A recent study published on the preprint medRxiv* in August 2020 reports on the evidence that the gut microbiome may play a part in severe COVID-19 infection.
The current global COVID-19 pandemic is caused by beta coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has infected over 22.1 million and caused 780 thousand deaths globally. One of the characteristics associated with severe and critical SARS-CoV-2 infection is the cytokine storm, a dysregulated secretion of cytokines that triggers systemic inflammation. This is a largely mysterious sequel of infection, with not too much being known about how it occurs.
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