Images Advance Understanding of SARS-CoV-2 Gut Infection Activity

摘要

Some of the largest and highest resolution images recorded of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, have been published online by scientists at the University of Dundee and the EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Ultra-powerful EM images collected by a consortium of researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam and Maastricht University in the Netherlands, show the formation of SARS-CoV-2 particles in a tissue model of the human gut, a potentially significant breakthrough in understanding how the disease can infect the intestine.