TWiM 90: Think globally, act locally

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello.

Special guests: Laurene Mascola and David Persing

Vincent meets up with Laurene and David at the Annual Meeting of the Southern California Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, where they discuss how the Los Angeles County Department of Health is preparing for an outbreak of Ebola virus infection, and Cepheid’s game-changing, modular PCR system for the diagnosis of infectious diseases.

https://youtu.be/6Ye5DDBK1k0

Right click to download TWiM#90 (45 MB .mp3, 62 minutes).

Links for this episode:

• Cepheid
• Los Angeles County Department of Health
• Los Angeles County Ebola virus page
• SCASM
• Ebola virus specimen collection (CDC)
• Image credit: Cepheid

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