A research team from the national research infrastructure IDMIT*, in collaboration with the Frédéric Joliot Institute for life science of the CEA, has developed a PET imaging strategy to visualize and quantify the whole-body distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in a primate animal model. It has characterized the distribution of the virus in the acute phase of infection in the brain, kidneys, lungs and respiratory tract, and 3 months after infection, its persistence in the lungs and brain. The imaging strategy is … Continue reading