Association of endopeptidases, involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection, with microbial aggravation in sputum of severe asthma

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ² Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
• ³ Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁴ NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Clinical and Experimental Sciences and Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ⁵ Centre for Allergy Research, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁶ Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ⁷ Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁹ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.