Fig. 2
From: Human endogenous retrovirus K in the respiratory tract is associated with COVID-19 physiopathology
Presence of HERV-K transcripts in the plasma of severe COVID-19 patients. A The fraction of the HERV-K virome was compared to the results of real-time RT-qPCR to detect HERV-K GAG (Ct values) in plasma from those patients. B Plasma samples from severe cases (Supplementary Table 1) and from healthy donors (HD) were evaluated for the presence of HERV-K GAG by RT-qPCR. Samples with Ct values below 50 were considered positive for HERV-K. C HERV-K levels in the plasma of patients presented as a function of days since COVID-19 onset. A statistically significant (p < 0.05) difference between linear coefficients is represented by #. *= p < 0.05