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Virus detective: searching for Zika, dengue and SARS-CoV-2

Danielle Bruna Leal de Oliveira tracks pathogens for Brazil’s public-health system.
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Danielle Bruna Leal de Oliveira looks at a microscopic view on a screen of Sars-Cov-2 in her lab in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Danielle Bruna Leal de Oliveira is a researcher in microbiology and virology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Credit: Pablo Albarenga for Nature

In this picture, I’m looking into a digital microscope to observe the structural damage that SARS-CoV-2 does to cells from an African green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus). I’m inside NB3, the maximum-biosecurity laboratory here at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, wearing protective equipment. In this room, we look like astronauts.

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Nature 599, 172 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03001-8

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