Pathological and molecular examinations of postmortem testis biopsies reveal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the testis and spermatogenesis damage in COVID-19 patients

Cell Mol Immunol. 2021 Feb;18(2):487-489. doi: 10.1038/s41423-020-00604-5. Epub 2020 Dec 14.

¹ Institute of Reproductive Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China.
² Department of Forensic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China.
³ Department of Pathology, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, Hubei, 430023, China.
⁴ Hubei Chongxin Judicial Expertise Center, Wuhan, Hubei, 430415, China.
⁵ Research Center for Translational Medicine, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, Hubei, 430023, China.
⁶ Joint Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Health, Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, 430023, China.
⁷ Department of Forensic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China. 907505@qq.com.
⁸ Institute of Reproductive Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China. aihua_liao@sina.com.
⁹ Institute of Reproductive Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China. shuiqiaoyuan@hust.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

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