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Persistence of viral RNA, widespread thrombosis and abnormal cellular syncytia are hallmarks of COVID-19 lung pathology

2020-06-26 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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COVID-19 is a deadly pulmonary disease with unique clinical features. A thorough understanding of the molecular and histological correlates of the disease is still missing, especially because post-mortem analysis of COVID-19-affected organs has been so far scant and often anecdotical. Here we report the results of the systematic analysis of 41 consecutive post-mortem samples from individuals who died of COVID-19. We found that the disease is characterized by extensive alveolar damage and thrombo...

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