Host Expression Profiling From Diagnostic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Swabs Associates Upper Respiratory Tract Immune Responses With Radiologic Lung Pathology and Clinical Severity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 presents with a breadth of symptomatology including a spectrum of clinical severity requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We investigated the mucosal host gene response at the time of gold standard COVID-19 diagnosis using clinical surplus RNA from upper respiratory tract swabs.

Methods

Host response was evaluated by RNA-sequencing, and transcriptomic profiles of 44 unvaccinated patients including outpatients and in-patients with varying levels of oxygen supplementation were included. Additionally, chest X-rays were reviewed and scored for patients in each group.

Results

Host transcriptomics revealed significant changes in the immune and inflammatory response. Patients destined for the ICU were distinguished by the significant upregulation

SUBMITTER: Kozak RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173546 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature