SARS-CoV-2 infects cells lining the blood-retinal barrier and induces a hyperinflammatory immune response in the retina via systemic exposure

• Monu Monu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Monu Monu, Faraz Ahmad

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Faraz Ahmad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Monu Monu, Faraz Ahmad

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Rachel M. Olson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Vaishnavi Balendiran,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Pawan Kumar Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pksfcq@health.missouri.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5517-1120

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