T-cell dysfunction as a potential contributing factor in post-COVID-19 mucormycosis.

Himanshu DanduManish KumarHardeep Singh MalhotraNaveen KumarNeeraj KumarPrashanth GuptaBipin PuriGeeta Yadav

Published in: Mycoses (2022)

Immunosuppression in non-COVID mucor showed pronounced exhaustion of T-cells in comparison to post-COVID mucor cases implicating T-cell immune dysfunction is much more severe in non-COVID mucor which are in a state of continuous activation followed by extreme exhaustion leading to poorer outcome.

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