Conjunctival epithelial cells resist productive SARS-CoV-2 infection
M. Lako, R. M. Jackson, C. F. Hatton, J. S. Spegarova, M. Georgiou, J. Collin, E. Stephenson, B. Vernon, I. J. Haq, R. Hussain, J. M. Coxhead, H. S. Mudhar, B. Wagner, M. Hasoon, T. Davie, , C. J. Duncan
The paper investigates whether conjunctival epithelial cells can be infected by SARS-CoV-2 and finds that while genome expression occurs, productive infection does not.
bioRxiv · Dec 20, 2021Cell Biology