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. 2021 Apr 1;9(4):337. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9040337

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Differential infection of upper and lower respiratory epithelia and subsequent bacterial colonisation. Viral infection leads to inhibition of function and cell death. This both increases bacterial adherence to, and colonisation, of the lower respiratory tracts. (Created in BioRender.com, accessed on 24 March 2021).