Interrogating the Impact of Intestinal Parasite-Microbiome on Pathogenesis of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa

Front Microbiol. 2021 Apr 16:12:614522. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.614522. eCollection 2021.

Dawit Wolday¹, Geremew Tasew², Wondwossen Amogne³, Britta Urban⁴, Henk Dfh Schallig⁵, Vanessa Harris^{5

6}, Tobias F Rinke de Wit^{6

7}

¹ Department of Medicine, Mekelle University College of Health Sciences, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
² Bacterial, Parasitic and Zoonotic Diseases Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³ School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Department of Clinical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁵ Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁷ Global Health, Joep Lange Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; helminths; hyperinflammation; microbiome; parasites; pathogenesis; protozoa.