Neeltje van Doremalen

The study compares contact transmissibility of human, bovine, and mountain lion H5N1 isolates in Syrian hamsters, finding human isolate has higher contact transmissibility despite limited overall transmission.

This study shows that female mice tolerate low-dose MERS-CoV infection but experience severe inflammation with high dose, while male mice have uniformly lethal outcomes regardless of dose.

This study compares the tissue tropism of two HPAI H5N1 isolates in mice, finding that the bovine isolate replicates in the brain and causes more neurotropism and inflammation than the human isolate.

This study evaluates the fitness and pathogenesis of Omicron variants in the upper and lower respiratory tracts, finding increased URT fitness with reduced lung pathology.