Influenza viruses pose a significant burden on global human health. Influenza has a broad cellular tropism in the airway, but how infection of different epithelial cell types impacts replication kinetics and burden in the airways is not fully understood. Using primary human airway cultures, which recapitulate the diverse epithelial cell landscape of the human airways, we investigated the impact of cell type composition on virus tropism and replication kinetics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) is a severe complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection characterized by multi-organ involvement and inflammation. Testing of cellular function ex vivo to understand the aberrant immune response in MIS-C is limited. Despite strong antibody production in MIS-C, SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing can remain positive for 4-6 weeks after infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe performance of plasma metagenomic next-generation sequencing was evaluated in an immunocompromised pediatric population. The clinical impact was limited, with management changes in 13% of cases. Moreover, organisms thought to be non-pathogenic were commonly detected.
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