Persistent infections in gastric and gallbladder tissue after SARS-CoV-2 infection. - Detection of nucleoprotein (infection only - not in vaccine!) - Up to 1 year (9-12 months) after infection. - Especially with young people. - Observed in 1/3 patients https://t.co/FdO3Fgk70q 1/3
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SARS-2 viral persistence has been described before in the gut. https://t.co/vQMOZwdP8g https://t.co/FuvfkaEPko https://t.co/aDLZ959VWz And found to be functionally important for the immune system 6 months after infection. 2/3
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
molecularcasestudies.cshlp.org/content/7/2/a0…
medrxiv.org/content/medrxi…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33461210/
This lead to the hypothesis that #LongCovid was caused by a persistent infection. 3/3
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