Measles skin rash: infection of lymphoid and myeloid cells in the dermis precedes viral dissemination to keratinocytes in the epidermis
B. M. Laksono, P. Fortugno, B. M. Nijmeijer, R. D. de Vries, S. Cordisco, S. van Nieuwkoop, T. Kuiken, T. B. H. Geijtenbeek, W. P. Duprex, F. Brancati, R. L. de Swart
This study investigates measles skin rash pathogenesis, showing that viral infection of dermal lymphoid and myeloid cells precedes dissemination to epidermal keratinocytes, with nectin-4 dependency for keratinocyte infection.
PLOS Pathogens · Oct 8, 2020Peer-reviewedMicrobiology