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Prof Sam Illingworth
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🐒 In monkeys, how COVID gets in beats dose Pooling 107 experiments on 721 monkeys and other primates shows the entry route shapes infection more than dose, age, sex, or species. Route also decides which tissues get infected. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aei4853 #COVID19 #Virology #Health 🧪

doi.orgExposure route, not dose, is the primary driver of infection patterns for a respiratory virusInfectious disease severity, shedding, and within-host kinetics can vary substantially with exposure dose, inoculation route, and host factors. However, the relative contributions of these variables t...

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