Deficient humoral responses and disrupted B-cell immunity are associated with fatal SFTSV infection

SFTSV is a novel phlebovirus associated with high fatality, but understanding of pathogenesis is lacking. Here the authors show defective cellular immunity, deficient antibody production and defunct humoral immunity is associated with fatal infection in human cases of infection.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peixin Song, Nan Zheng, Yong Liu, Chen Tian, Xilin Wu, Xiaohua Ma, Deyan Chen, Xue Zou, Guiyang Wang, Huanru Wang, Yongyang Zhang, Sufang Lu, Chao Wu, Zhiwei Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05746-9