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Adherens junction protein nectin-4 (PVRL4) is the epithelial receptor for measles virus

Measles (MV) is an aerosol-transmitted virus that affects more than 10 million children each year and accounts for approximately 120,000 deaths(1,2). While it was long believed to replicate in the respiratory epithelium before disseminating, it was recently shown to initially infect macrophages and...

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Autores principales: Mühlebach, Michael D., Mateo, Mathieu, Sinn, Patrick L., Prüfer, Steffen, Uhlig, Katharina M., Leonard, Vincent H. J., Navaratnarajah, Chanakha K., Frenzke, Marie, Wong, Xiao X., Sawatsky, Bevan, Ramachandran, Shyam, McCray, Paul B., Cichutek, Klaus, von Messling, Veronika, Lopez, Marc, Cattaneo, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22048310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10639