Do viruses use vectors to penetrate mucus barriers?
I propose a mechanism by which viruses successfully infect new individuals, despite being immotile particles with no ability for directed movement. Within cells, viral particle movements are directed by motors and elements of the cytoskeleton, but how viruses cross extracellular barriers, like mucus...
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Elsevier Ltd.
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67040 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8260-338X |