Clinicopathologic and Immunohistochemical Findings from Autopsy of Patient with COVID-19, Japan

Autor: Takuya Adachi, Ja-Mun Chong, Noriko Nakajima, Masahiro Sano, Jun Yamazaki, Ippei Miyamoto, Haruka Nishioka, Hidetaka Akita, Yuko Sato, Michiyo Kataoka, Harutaka Katano, Minoru Tobiume, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Kentaro Itokawa, Makoto Kuroda, Tadaki Suzuki
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 26, Iss 9, Pp 2157-2161 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid2609.201353
Popis: An autopsy of a patient in Japan with coronavirus disease indicated pneumonia lung pathology, manifested as diffuse alveolar damage. We detected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigen in alveolar epithelial cells and macrophages. Coronavirus disease is essentially a lower respiratory tract disease characterized by direct viral injury of alveolar epithelial cells.
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