Interleukin-3 is a predictive marker for severity and outcome during SARS-CoV-2 infections

Here, the authors identify interleukin-3 as a predictive marker for severity and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multi-center, prospective study and find that patients with severe COVID-19 have reduced circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cell levels compared to non-severe COVID-19 patients.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alan Bénard, Anne Jacobsen, Maximilian Brunner, Christian Krautz, Bettina Klösch, Izabela Swierzy, Elisabeth Naschberger, Malgorzata J. Podolska, Dina Kouhestani, Paul David, Torsten Birkholz, Ixchel Castellanos, Denis Trufa, Horia Sirbu, Marcel Vetter, Andreas E. Kremer, Kai Hildner, Andreas Hecker, Fabian Edinger, Matthias Tenbusch, Petra Mühl-Zürbes, Alexander Steinkasserer, Enrico Richter, Hendrik Streeck, Marc M. Berger, Thorsten Brenner, Markus A. Weigand, Filip K. Swirski, Georg Schett, Robert Grützmann, Georg F. Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21310-4