The virus goes where the mucus goes," said Mark Becker, a student in the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences (DGP) and first author of the study.
Interestingly, the mucosal environment most similar to the lungs is the upper female reproductive tract," Hope said.
Although mucus is generally thought to protect against infection by trapping and removing viruses and other particles, COVID-19 appears to exploit mucosal spread following an infection, Becker said.
The infrastructure at Feinberg really helped us build the facilities needed for this research," Hope said.
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