Co-infection of influenza A virus enhances SARS-CoV-2 infectivity

Abstract The upcoming flu season in the northern hemisphere merging with the current COVID-19 pandemic raises a potentially severe threat to public health. Through experimental co-infection of IAV with either pseudotyped or SARS-CoV-2 live virus, we found that IAV pre-infection significantly promoted the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 in a broad range of cell types. Remarkably, increased SARS-CoV-2 viral load and more severe lung damage were observed in mice co-infected with IAVin vivo. Moreover, such enhancement of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity was not seen with several other viruses probably due to a unique IAV segment as an inducer to elevate ACE2 expression. This study illustrates that IAV has a special nature to aggravate SARS-CoV-2 infection, and prevention of IAV is of great significance during the COVID-19 pandemic..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 23. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bai, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yongliang [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Jiazhen [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Simeng [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xinjin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zhixiang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Xiaoyi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Lianghui [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qianyun [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yucheng [VerfasserIn]
Niu, Danping [VerfasserIn]
Xiang, Min [VerfasserIn]
Song, Kun [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Jiajie [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Wenchao [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Zhidong [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Mingliang [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Li [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Lan, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Ke [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.10.14.335893

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI019129807