People with HIV who develop severe COVID-19 experience major changes in gut bacteria that persist for months after infection and may explain both the severity of COVID-19 and the extent of post-COVID symptoms, Japanese researchers report in the journal BMC Microbiology.
Although the researchers emphasise that their findings are tentative and need to be confirmed by larger studies, they think that the investigation of the microbiome – the bacteria population in the gut – is a promising avenue not only for understanding COVID-19 but for managing severe COVID-19 and long COVID.
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