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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2023

New Postmortem Perspective on Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern, Germany.

Fabian Heinrich, Tobias Huter, Sophie Mertens, Philine Lange, Jessica Vering, Axel Heinemann, Dominik Sebastian Nörz, Armin Hoffmann, Martin Aepfelbacher, Benjamin Ondruschka and 2 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. ApoE4 Homozygosity Is Associated With Increased Microglia Activation in Fatal COVID-19.Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology · 2025
    Article
  2. A survey of SARS-CoV-2 tropism.Infectious diseases & immunity · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Fabian Heinrich
Tobias Huter
Sophie Mertens
Philine Lange
Jessica Vering
Axel Heinemann
Dominik Sebastian Nörz
Armin Hoffmann
Martin Aepfelbacher
Benjamin Ondruschka
Susanne Krasemann
Marc Lütgehetmann

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We performed autopsies on persons in Germany who died from COVID-19 and observed higher nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 viral loads for variants of concern (VOC) compared with non-VOC lineages. Pulmonary inflammation and damage appeared higher in non-VOC than VOC lineages until adjusted for vaccination status, suggesting COVID-19 vaccination may mitigate pulmonary damage.

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PMID36787498
PMCPMC9973696

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