TWiV discusses genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, polio cases in African linked to a new polio vaccine that was designed to not cause the disease, and structural conservation of hepatitis B virus capsid proteins over millions of years despite a shift from a naked to an enveloped capsid.
TWiV gives an update on poliovirus in wastewater, and reveals a vast world of viroids that infect a wide range of host species in diverse ecosystems.
TWiV 913: Twinkle twinkle little SARS
- June 26, 2022
- Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, Gilteritinib, interferon, IPV, IRF7, long COVID, OPV, pandemic, poliomyelitis, SARS-CoV-2, VAPP, viral, virology, virus, viruses
TWiV explains the meaning of vaccine-derived poliovirus found in London sewage, risk of long COVID after infections with Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, and enhancers of innate immune signaling as broad-spectrum antivirals. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello,…
TWiV returns to the 2012 brouhaha over transmission experiments with avian H5N1 influenza virus, re-examines the claim of SARS-CoV-2 RNA integration into human DNA, and reviews the engineering and testing of a genetically stable version of the attenuated type 2 Sabin poliovirus vaccine.
TWiV 753: The ferret nose where the virus goes
- May 9, 2021
- Tagged as: aerosol, airborne transmission, coronavirus, COVID-19, droplet transmission, ferret, Gamaleya, H5N1, influenza virus, IPV, OPV, pandemic, polio eradication, poliomyelitis, poliovirus, sputnik, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses
TWiV revisits Brazil’s rejection of Sputnik vaccine, examines influenza transmission via the air from the nasal epithelium of ferrets, and a history of accidental releases of polioviruses and their relevance for eradication of poliomyelitis.
Kostya Chumakov discusses the hypothesis that oral poliovirus vaccine can provide non-specific protection against many other viruses, and might prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2.
The TWiV team covers outbreaks of eastern equine encephalitis virus in the US and poliovirus in the Philippines, and explain how a chemokine induced by HIV-1 infection helps release more virus particles from cells.
The TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection conferred by Zostavax, a new adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine.
TWiV 371: Sympathy for the devil
- January 10, 2016
- Tagged as: attenuation, circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, eradication, inactivated poliovaccine, IPV, microsatellite DNA, neurovirulence, OPV, oral poliovaccine, poliovirus, reversion, Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian devil facial tumor, transmissible cancer, vaccine seed strain, viral, virology, virus, viruses
The TWiVologists discuss the finding of a second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils, and development of new poliovirus strains for the production of inactivated vaccine in the post-eradication era.
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss bacteria that can utilize arsenic in place of phosphorus, the passing of Frank Fenner, polio outbreak in The Congo, solving criminal cases of HIV transmission, and classifying viruses by capsid structure.