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Date Time Pitt Scientists Find Key to Viral-Bacterial Co-infection The mechanism by which acute viral respiratory infections promote secondary bacterial growth and infection in the airways depends on iron-carrying extracellular sacs secreted by the cells lining the host’s airways, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a paper published today in Cell Reports. The sacs, or “vesicles,” which carry iron bound to a protein called transferrin, associate with...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Associate professor in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine view more  Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26, 2021 - The mechanism by which acute viral respiratory infections promote secondary bacterial growth and infection in the airways depends on iron-carrying extracellular sacs secreted by the cells lining the hosts airways, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medic...