How Lassa virus breaks and enters

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 26 Jun 2014 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 344, pages 1,476-1,477 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203,

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Authors: S. M. Hurtley;

doi: 10.1126/science.344.6191.1476-e

How Lassa virus breaks and enters

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Virus Entry Lassa virus, which spreads from rodents to humans, infecting about half a million people every year, can lead to deadly hemorrhagic fever. Like many viruses, Lassa virus binds to cell surface receptors. Jae et al. now show that to enter a cell, the virus requires a second receptor, this

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