This Week in Virology

TWiV 3: Dengue

Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of dengue virus.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #3 (19.6 MB .mp3 file)

Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email

Article on the mortgage crisis and West Nile virus in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Environment-oriented review of Dengue.
Dengue page at the World Health Organization.
Episode transcript (download pdf)

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Vincent and Dickson discuss the biology and pathogenesis of poliovirus infection and the plan to eradicate the virus from the planet.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #2 (22.9 MB .mp3 file)

Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email

polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio.
Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”.

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Vincent and Dickson launch a new science podcast with a description of the emergence and spread of West Nile virus in the United States.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #1 (41.8 MB .mp3 file)

Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email

Buy “West Nile Story” by Dickson Despommier.
ProMed Mail. The global reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious disease.
PubMed. A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
West Nile page at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Great maps of where the virus has been found.
Episode transcript (download pdf)

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv