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A Common Receptor Found for Echoviruses

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It has remained a puzzle why infants, during the first weeks of life, are especially prone to enterovirus infections. New work (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2019;116: 3758–3763) shines light on this matter by showing that the neonatal Fc receptor, prevalent in several tissues, acts as a pan receptor for several echoviruses.

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