Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in lung tissue after mild COVID-19

Laurens J Ceulemans; Mona Khan; Seung-Jun Yoo; Bolek Zapiec; Laura Van Gerven; Jan Van Slambrouck; Arno Vanstapel; Dirk Van Raemdonck; Robin Vos; Els Wauters; Joost Wauters; Peter Carmeliet; Peter Mombaerts

doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00240-X

Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in lung tissue after mild COVID-19

Lancet Respir Med. 2021 Aug;9(8):e78-e79. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00240-X. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics, Frankfurt, Germany.
³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Neurosciences, Research unit Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Transplantation, Research unit Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Imaging and Pathology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁷ Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Transplantation, Laboratory for Clinical Infectious and Inflammatory Disorders, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁹ Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism, Centre for Cancer Biology, VIB, Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

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Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biopsy / methods
COVID-19* / diagnosis
COVID-19* / physiopathology
COVID-19* / virology
Humans
In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence / methods
Lung Transplantation
RNA, Viral / isolation & purification*
SARS-CoV-2* / genetics
SARS-CoV-2* / isolation & purification
Time Factors
Transplants* / pathology
Transplants* / virology

Substances

RNA, Viral