ABO blood grouping and COVID 19: Is there any correlation in suspectibility?

作者：Sushma Bommanavar, T Smitha · 发表于：Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_240_20 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Blood groups and transfusion、Diabetes and associated disorders、Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology

INTRODUCTION Currently, the Coronavirus emerging from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (COVID 19) virus in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China has been declared as a pandemic disease by World Health Organization and is spreading widely across the globe like wildfire. This began in Wuhan wet-market, China that deals with animal trade business of different kinds of horse bats, poultry, snakes, marmots. Recent reports have highlighted the role of zoonotic links, cross-species jumping and spillover conjuncture between animals and human transmission, before acquiring direct human-to-human contact.[12] Also known as (SARS-CoV-2, SARS2, 2019-nCoV), it is a newly emerging zoonotic agent that causes severe respiratory illness leading to pneumonia, multiorgan failure and cardiac arrest.[34] ABO blood grouping, discovered in 1900 by Austin immunologist Karl Landsteiner to explain the phenomena of red blood cell (RBC) agglutination, is well-documented hypothesis. A recent study has documented the relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 susceptibility concluding that blood Group O individuals are at low risk and blood Group A are at high risk to COVID-19 infection.[5] This review uncovers the detailed mystery on the correlation of the ABO blood group and COVID 19, including the structure of coronavirus, pathogenesis and current scenario on preventive approaches. CORONAVIRUS AND ITS STRUCTURE Is a spherical-shaped, enveloped, single-stranded RNA virus...