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TWiV 239: Filterable camels

  • June 30, 2013
  • Tagged as: bat, camel, MERS-CoV, Middle East coronavirus, pneumonia, respiratory infection, SARS, viral, virology, virus, zoonosis

Matt joins Vincent, Alan, and Rich to summarize what we know and what we do not know about the MERS coronavirus.

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TWiV 231: Hepaciviruses and pegiviruses in bats and rodents

  • May 5, 2013
  • Tagged as: amit kapoor, bat, hepacivirus, homolog, ian lipkin, lan quan, pegivirus, reservoir, viral, virology, virus

Vincent meets up with Amit, Lan, and Ian to discuss their discovery of hepaciviruses and pegiviruses in bats and rodents.

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TWiV 183: Bats out of hell

  • May 13, 2012
  • Tagged as: bat, bioterrorism, H5N1, hendra, influenza, measles, mumps, Nipah, paramyxovirus, respiratory syncytial, viral, virology, virus

Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

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TWiV 90: Guano happens

  • July 11, 2010
  • Tagged as: bat, deep sequencing, flavivirus, gbv, hepatitis g virus, Smallpox, vaccination, Vaccine, vaccinia, viral, virology, virome, virus

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Eric discuss identification of viruses in Northeastern American bats, vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with a military vaccinee, and identification of a new flavivirus from an Old World bat in Bangladesh.

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TWiV 65: Matt’s bats

  • January 10, 2010
  • Tagged as: bat, bornavirus, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, endogenous virus, TWiV, viral, virology, virome, virus, XMRV

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss a project to study the RNA virome of Northeastern American bats, failure to detect XMRV in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients, and DNA of bornavirus, an RNA virus, in mammalian genomes.

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TWiV 28: SARS

  • April 19, 2009
  • Tagged as: bacteriophage, bat, battery, coronavirus, H5N1, influenza, Koala, M13, Minnesota, norovirus, OPV, poliovirus, retrovirus, Sabin, SARS, virology, virus

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Eric F. Donaldson discuss a new test for influenza H5N1, poliovirus in Minnesota, Koala retrovirus, batteries made from viruses, and SARS.

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