First case of postmortem study in a patient vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2

A previously symptomless 86-year-old man received the first dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. He died 4 weeks later from acute renal and respiratory failure. Although he did not present with any COVID-19-specific symptoms, he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 before he died. Spike protein (S1...

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Main Authors: Torsten Hansen, Ulf Titze, Nidhi Su Ann Kulamadayil-Heidenreich, Sabine Glombitza, Johannes Josef Tebbe, Christoph Röcken, Birte Schulz, Michael Weise, Ludwig Wilkens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221003647