Selected Grantee Publications

Best Practices for Correctly Identifying Coronavirus by Transmission Electron Microscopy

Bullock  et al., Kidney International. 2021.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33493525/

This paper provides strategies for identifying coronaviruses by transmission electron microscopy in ultrathin sections of tissues or tissue cultures. As illustrated by results in the literature, organ damage may be incorrectly attributed to the presence of virus, since images of coronavirus may resemble subcellular organelles. The paper also references numerous biochemical and imaging techniques to aid an investigator in avoiding pseudo positive identifications. Supported by ORIP (S10OD026776) and others.