Is molecular mimicry the culprit in the autoimmune haemolytic anaemia affecting patients with COVID-19?

Br J Haematol. 2020 Jul;190(2):e92-e93. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16883. Epub 2020 Jun 8.

Francesca Angileri¹, Sébastien Légaré^{2

3}, Antonella Marino Gammazza⁴, Everly Conway de Macario⁵, Alberto J L Macario^{5

6}, Francesco Cappello^{4

6}

¹ Cancer Research Center of Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.
² Département d'Informatique de l'ÉNS, ÉNS, CNRS, Université PSL, Paris, France.
³ Centre de recherche Inria de Paris, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics (BIND), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore-Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), Palermo, Italy.

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Keywords: COVID-19; ankirin 1; autoantibodies; autoimmunity; molecular mimicry; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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