Kartik and Rohit join the TWiV team to present their identification of protocadherin-1 as a cell receptor for New World hantaviruses.
TWiV 527: City mouse, country mouse
- December 30, 2018
- Tagged as: deer mouse, enteric nervous system, flavivirus, hantavirus, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, IBS, inflammatory bowel syndrome, intestinal dysmotility syndrome, neurotropic, outbreak, Peromyscus maniculatus, sin nombre virus, viral, virology, virus, viruses, west nile virus, zoonosis
The TWiV team summarizes the discovery of Sin Nombre virus, and presents evidence that neurotropic flaviviruses can cause intestinal dysmotility syndromes after systemic infection of mice.
Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich Condit chat about infectious salmon anemia virus, virus-resistant grapevines, virulence of pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, origin of 1918 influenza virus, holy water ban to halt influenza, frequency of human WU and KI polyomavirus infection, rabies in China, and host species of sin nombre virus.