Recent research advancements and studies suggest that children are more susceptive to the higher respiratory tract expression of avian influenza receptors in comparison to the adults. This clearly means that the children particularly are vulnerable to infection.
Dr.John Nicholls from the University of Hong Kong and his specialized research team used modified immune-histo-chemical techniques to demonstrate more widespread expression of avian influenza receptors throughout the respiratory tract in general. Such specific study was never conducted in past.
Dr. John Nicholls found greater receptor expression in the respiratory epithelium of children than of adults. His team preferred adopting new technologically advanced methods for further investigations and obtained refined and improved results implying that previous findings on the tissue distribution of influenza receptors should now be re-evaluated.
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