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Review
. 2021 Jan 25:11:607734.
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.607734. eCollection 2020.

Could Perturbation of Gut Microbiota Possibly Exacerbate the Severity of COVID-19 via Cytokine Storm?

Ramachandran Vignesh  1   2 , Chinnambedu Ravichandran Swathirajan  2 , Zaw Htet Tun  1 , Marimuthu Ragavan Rameshkumar  3 , Sunil Suhas Solomon  2   4 , Pachamuthu Balakrishnan  2
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Review

Could Perturbation of Gut Microbiota Possibly Exacerbate the Severity of COVID-19 via Cytokine Storm?

Ramachandran Vignesh et al. Front Immunol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19 and gut microbiome; COVID-19 inflammation; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2; cytokine storm in SARS-CoV-2; gut dysbiosis in COVID-19; microbial translocation in COVID-19; microbiome and cytokine storm.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Schematic representation of the proposed hypothesis of gut microbiota perturbation leading to severe COVID-19 by cytokine storm.
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