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#nasopharyngeal — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Human #SARSCoV2 challenge uncovers local and systemic response dynamics | Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-024 “observed that the #interferon response in blood preceded the nasopharyngeal response. Moreover, #nasopharyngeal immune infiltration occurred early in samples from individuals with only transient infection and later in samples from individuals with sustained infection. High expression of #HLADQA2 before inoculation was associated with preventing sustained infection” #COVID

  2. the patient reported only #conjunctivitis with no respiratory or other symptoms, which likely resulted in lower viral #RNA #concentrations detected in the #nasopharyngeal sample and is suggestive of a lack of respiratory infection in the patient.

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