TWiV 993: COVID-19 drives autoimmunity

Published: March 19, 2023, 4 a.m.

TWiV reveals how treatment with remdesivir for COVID-19 resolved a chronic poliovirus infection in an immunocompromised patient, and the finding that infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to an increase in new and preexisting autoantibodies.

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\u2022Clearance of chronic poliovirus infection by remdesivir (Front Immunol)
\u2022Autoimmunity induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection (Nat Comm)
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\u2022Timestamps by\xa0Jolene. Thanks!

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