Clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 harboring detectable intracellular SARS-CoV-2 RNA in peripheral blood cells

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OBJECTIVES: Although SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia has been reported to strongly impact patients with severe COVID-19, the clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 harboring detectable intracellular SARS-CoV-2 RNA remain unknown.

METHODS: We included adult patients who had developed COVID-19 between February and September 2020. Total white blood cells derived from the buffy coat of peripheral whole blood were used to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA using the Illumina COVIDSeq test. We compared the clinical characteristics between patients with and without detected viral RNA (detected and undetected groups).

RESULTS: Among the 390 patients included, 17 harbored SARS-CoV-2 RNA in peripheral white blood cells. All 17 patients required oxygen support during the disease course and had higher intensive care unit admission (52.9% vs 28.9%, P = 0.035), mortality (17.7% vs 3.5%, P = 0.004), kidney dysfunction (severe, 23.5% vs 6.4%, P = 0.029), and corticosteroid treatment rates (76.5% vs 46.5%, P = 0.016) than those of patients in the undetected group.

CONCLUSION: We propose that patients with circulating intracellular SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the peripheral blood exhibited the most severe disease course.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:135

Enthalten in:

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 135(2023) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 41-44

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tanaka, Hiromu [VerfasserIn]
Namkoong, Ho [VerfasserIn]
Chubachi, Shotaro [VerfasserIn]
Irie, Shinji [VerfasserIn]
Uwamino, Yoshifumi [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Ho [VerfasserIn]
Azekawa, Shuhei [VerfasserIn]
Otake, Shiro [VerfasserIn]
Nakagawara, Kensuke [VerfasserIn]
Fukushima, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Watase, Mayuko [VerfasserIn]
Kusumoto, Tatsuya [VerfasserIn]
Masaki, Katsunori [VerfasserIn]
Kamata, Hirofumi [VerfasserIn]
Ishii, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Okada, Yukinori [VerfasserIn]
Takano, Tomomi [VerfasserIn]
Imoto, Seiya [VerfasserIn]
Koike, Ryuji [VerfasserIn]
Kimura, Akinori [VerfasserIn]
Miyano, Satoru [VerfasserIn]
Ogawa, Seishi [VerfasserIn]
Kanai, Takanori [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Taka-Aki [VerfasserIn]
Fukunaga, Koichi [VerfasserIn]
Japan COVID-19 Task Force [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Intracellular SARS-CoV-2 RNA
Journal Article
RNA, Viral

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Date Completed 29.09.2023

Date Revised 29.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2023.07.030

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360411118