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SUBMITTER: Good C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6402847 | biostudies-other | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Good Charles C Wells Alexandra I AI Coyne Carolyn B CB
Science advances 20190306 3
Recent worldwide outbreaks of enterovirus 71 (EV71) have caused major epidemics of hand, foot, and mouth disease with severe neurological complications, including acute flaccid paralysis. EV71 is transmitted by the enteral route, but little is known about the mechanisms it uses to cross the human gastrointestinal tract. Using primary human intestinal epithelial monolayers, we show that EV71 infects the epithelium from the apical surface, where it preferentially infects goblet cells. We found tha ...[more]