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Babies collect their own viruses rather than relying on Mum’s

A coloured transmission electron microscopy view of Picornavirus

Very young children have large numbers of picornaviruses (above; artificially coloured), which can infect cells and cause illness. Credit: Cavallini James/BSIP/Science Photo Library

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Nature 614, 392 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00353-1

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  1. Walters, W. A. et al. Cell Host Microbe 31, 187–198.e3 (2023).

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