COVID-19 Severity and ABO Blood Types; Association and Molecular Mechanisms A short Review

Authors

  • Nazia Hasan Khan United Hospital Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Nusrat Mannan Department of Microbiology, US-Bangla Medical College, Bangladesh
  • Mohammad Saroare Zaman Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Arifa Akram Department of Virology, National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bjmm.v14i2.57796

Keywords:

SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19

Abstract

Genetically inherited characteristics of blood group phenotypes, whose association with certain infectious diseases have been debated for long. Growing evidence suggests that ABO blood group may play a role in the immunopathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The level of evidence supporting an association between ABO type and COVID-19 ranges from small observational studies, to genome-wide-association-analyses and country-level meta-regression analyses. We tried to find out the molecular relations of SARS-CoV-2 infection and ABO blood groups. We discussed inherited associations and possible molecular mechanisms that drive the relationship between blood type and COVID-19. Similar and non-similar comments and demonstrations from several studies are simply notified here.

Bangladesh J Med Microbiol 2020; 14 (2): 30-35

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Published

2020-07-31

How to Cite

Khan, N. H. ., Mannan, N. ., Zaman, M. S. ., & Akram, A. . (2020). COVID-19 Severity and ABO Blood Types; Association and Molecular Mechanisms A short Review. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 14(2), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjmm.v14i2.57796

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Review Articles