Effects of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes and Their Subsets in Children: Imbalanced CD4+/CD8+ T Cell Ratio and Disease Severity

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Amene Navaeian¹  Mohammad Taghi Haghi Ashtiani²  Bahareh Yaghmaei³  Meisam Sharifzadeh Ekbatani³  Shima Mahmoudi⁴  Babak Pourakbari⁴  Setareh Mamishi⁵  Nima Parvaneh⁶ 

[1] Department of Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Pathology, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Division of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran;Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran;Department of Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: lymphocyte;    children;    COVID-19;    SARS-CoV-2;    CD4+/CD8+ lymphocytes;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fped.2021.643299

来源: Frontiers

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