ABO blood groups and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

ABSTRACT: There is no doubt that genetic factors of the host play a role in susceptibility to infectious diseases. An association between ABO blood groups and SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as the severity of COVID-19 has been suggested relatively early during the pandemic and gained enormously high public interest. It was postulated that blood group A predisposes to a higher risk of infection as well as to a much higher risk of severe respiratory disease and that people with blood group O are less frequently and less severely affected by the disease. However, as to the severity of COVID-19, a thorough summary of the existing literature does not support these assumptions in general. Accordingly, at this time, there is no reason to suppose that knowledge of a patient's ABO phenotype should directly inf

SUBMITTER: Bullerdiek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8973646 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature