Logo for University of Iowa Health Care This logo represents the University of Iowa Health Care

A unique exit strategy may help explain why measles is the most contagious human virus

A pseudocolored confocal 3D reconstruction model of a measles virus induced infectious center dislodging from a layer of primary human airway epithelial cells. The image was generated by Brajesh Singh at the University of Iowa.A new discovery showing that measles virus hitches a ride inside a protective raft of airway cells when it leaves a host, may help explain why this virus is so highly contagious. CCOM article

Daily Iowan article

Read the paper

Date: 
Thursday, October 21, 2021