Why the study?
Norovirus causes epidemic gastroenteritis with no approved vaccines or antivirals, and the source and mechanisms of IFN-λ regulation against persistent infection remained to be defined.
Population
Murine norovirus in vivo model
Design
Preclinical animal and cellular study
Authors
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IFN-λ effects on tuft cells remain hypothesis-generating for norovirus persistence; leaves open human translation and therapeutic targeting.
Host sensing of MNoV occurs in nonsusceptible enterocytes which produce IFN-λ that acts on infected tuft cells to limit persistent infection.
Ingle et al. (2023) studied this question.