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SUBMITTER: Takahashi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725931 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takahashi Takehiro T Ellingson Mallory K MK Wong Patrick P Israelow Benjamin B Lucas Carolina C Klein Jon J Silva Julio J Mao Tianyang T Oh Ji Eun JE Tokuyama Maria M Lu Peiwen P Venkataraman Arvind A Park Annsea A Liu Feimei F Meir Amit A Sun Jonathan J Wang Eric Y EY Casanovas-Massana Arnau A Wyllie Anne L AL Vogels Chantal B F CBF Earnest Rebecca R Lapidus Sarah S Ott Isabel M IM Moore Adam J AJ Shaw Albert A Fournier John B JB Odio Camila D CD Farhadian Shelli S Dela Cruz Charles C Grubaugh Nathan D ND Schulz Wade L WL Ring Aaron M AM Ko Albert I AI Omer Saad B SB Iwasaki Akiko A
Nature 20200826 7837
There is increasing evidence that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) produces more severe symptoms and higher mortality among men than among women<sup>1-5</sup>. However, whether immune responses against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) differ between sexes, and whether such differences correlate with the sex difference in the disease course of COVID-19, is currently unknown. Here we examined sex differences in viral loads, SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody titres, plasma c ...[more]