Direct cell-to-cell transmission of respiratory viruses: The fast lanes

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What are "fast lanes" and why are they needed in the respiratory tract?From the speed and efficiency perspective, we refer to the infrastructure that viruses use for rapid cell-to-cell spread as "fast lanes."Viruses do not build fast lanes.Instead, they modify or connect existing host-cell trafficking and cytoskeletal infrastructure.In this sense, different categories of fast lanes exist that vary in their...

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