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TWiV 364: It’s not SARS 2.0

  • November 22, 2015
  • Tagged as: bat, coronavirus, gain of function, host range, infectious viral DNA, MERS, pathogenesis, SARS, spike glycoprotein, tropism, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoonoses, zoonosis
horseshoe bats

Vincent, Rich, and Kathy speak with Ralph and Vineet about their research on the potential of SARS-like bat coronaviruses to infect human cells and cause disease in mice.

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TWiV 347: Rose rosette and squirrel roulette

  • July 26, 2015
  • Tagged as: bornavirus, Emeravirus, encephalitis, eriophyid mite, mite, Phyllocoptes fructiphilus, rose, rose rosette disease, rose rosette virus, variegated squirrel, variegated squirrel 1 bornavirus, viral, virology, virus, VSBV-1, zoonosis

Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the virus behind rose rosette disease, and fatal human encephalitis caused by a variegated squirrel bornavirus.

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TWiV 327: Does a gorilla shift in the woods?

  • March 8, 2015
  • Tagged as: APOBEC3G, cross-species, deamination, epidemic, gorilla, group O, hiv-1, human immunodeficiency virus, SIV-1, spillover, vif, viral, virology, virus, zoonosis

The eTWiVicators review evidence that the HIV-1 group O epidemic began with a single cross-species transmission of virus from western lowland gorillas.

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TWiV 296: The real Batman, Linfa Wang

  • August 3, 2014
  • Tagged as: bat, BSL-4 facility, flying fox, fruit bat, Hendra virus, Linfa Wang, MERS, Nipah virus, SARS, spillover, viral, virology, virus, zoonosis

Vincent visits the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia and speaks with Linfa about his work on bats and bat viruses.

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TWiV 258: Hedging our bats

  • November 10, 2013
  • Tagged as: ACE2, bat, coronavirus, MERS-CoV, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, SARS-CoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome, viral, virology, virus, zoonosis
coronavirus

Matt joins the TWiV team to discuss the discovery of a SARS-like coronavirus in bats that can infect human cells, and what is going on with MERS-coronavirus.

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TWiV 249: An inordinate fondness for viruses

  • September 8, 2013
  • Tagged as: bat, flying fox, mammal, Pteropus giganteus, unknown virome, viral, virology, virus, zoonosis

Vincent, Dickson, Alan and Rich discuss an estimate of the number of different mammalian viruses on Earth.

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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 128: Virologists in the mist

  • April 10, 2011
  • Tagged as: algae, antarctica, gorilla, leishmania, metapneumovirus, phycodnavirus, viral, virology, virophage, virus, zoonosis

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas.

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