In January 2023, Dr. FANG Xueling and Dr. CAI Hongliu from the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU) co-published an article entitled Viral reactivation in the lungs of patients with severe pneumonia is associated with increased mortality, a multicenter, retrospective study in the Journal of Medical Virology. This study investigated the landscape of viral reactivation in the lungs of patients with severe pneumonia and found that herpesviridae reactivation in the lungs was associated with an increased risk of mortality among these patients.

Source: School of Medicine