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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ronald Dijkman
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-9781 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PLoS biology 20210329 3
Since its emergence in December 2019, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally and become a major public health burden. Despite its close phylogenetic relationship to SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 exhibits increased human-to-human transmission dynamics, likely due to efficient early replication in the upper respiratory epithelium of infected individuals. Since different temperatures encountered in the human upper and lower respiratory tract (33°C and 37°C, respecti ...[more]