Extracellular amoebal-vesicles: potential transmission vehicles for respiratory viruses
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2021
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Dey, R.
Folkins, M.A.
Ashbolt, N.J.
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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021; 7(1, article no. 25):1-5
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Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of acute respiratory tract infections in children and immunocompromised adults worldwide. Here we report that amoebae-release respirable-sized vesicles containing high concentrations of infectious RSV that persisted for the duration of the experiment. Given the ubiquity of amoebae in moist environments, our results suggest that extracellular amoebal-vesicles could contribute to the environmental persistence of respiratory viruses, including potential resistance to disinfection processes and thereby offering novel pathways for viral dissemination and transmission
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Copyright 2021 The author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)