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Comment
. 2020 Jul;17(7):383.
doi: 10.1038/s41575-020-0317-5.

Organoids demonstrate gut infection by SARS-CoV-2

Iain Dickson  1
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Organoids demonstrate gut infection by SARS-CoV-2

Iain Dickson. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Jul.
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Confocal microscopy image of a human intestinal organoid 60 h following infection with SARS-CoV-2. Actin filaments are stained green, nuclei are blue and the virus is white. Image courtesy of J. Beumer.
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  • SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human gut enterocytes.
    Lamers MM, Beumer J, van der Vaart J, Knoops K, Puschhof J, Breugem TI, Ravelli RBG, Paul van Schayck J, Mykytyn AZ, Duimel HQ, van Donselaar E, Riesebosch S, Kuijpers HJH, Schipper D, van de Wetering WJ, de Graaf M, Koopmans M, Cuppen E, Peters PJ, Haagmans BL, Clevers H. Lamers MM, et al. Science. 2020 Jul 3;369(6499):50-54. doi: 10.1126/science.abc1669. Epub 2020 May 1. Science. 2020. PMID: 32358202 Free PMC article.

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    1. Lamers MM, et al. SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human gut enterocytes. Science. 2020 doi: 10.1126/science.abc1669. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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