Ancestral sars-cov-2, but not omicron, replicates less efficiently in primary pediatric nasal epithelial cells

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• who: Yanshan Zhu and colleagues from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia have published the research: Ancestral SARS-CoV-2, but not Omicron, replicates less efficiently in primary pediatric nasal epithelial cells, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The data presented here strongly suggest that the nasal epithelium of children is distinct and that it may afford children some level of protection from ancestral SARS-CoV-2, although such age-dependent differences become less pronounced in the case of Omicron infection.
• how: Where data were normally . . .
  

   

  

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