Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVbolans discuss the finding that human noroviruses, major causes of gastroenteritis, can for the first time be propagated in B cell cultures, with the help of enteric bacteria.
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- Ebola virus appropriations (White House)
- ASM Ebola FAQ
- Quarantine due to Ebola virus in semen (NPR)
- Enteric bacteria promote norovirus infection of B cells (Science)
- Norovirus emerges (Zimmer)
- Stephanie Karst on TWiV 134
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Hi everybody! I had weird case at my work this month. A patient, who lives at a rural area, during a week drank a water from a water reservoir where a bat was found dead ( a bat juice?) Well, at the moment that this case was introduced to me, I was in doubt to install rabies post-exposure prophylaxis, since no oral transmission was described, but…rabies kills, vaccines don’t ( I suppose). What do you TWiVbolans think about that?? Is there a chance to transmit? There is a oral vaccination in fox isn’t it?
PS: I work with zoonotic surveillance at south of Brazil. I’m waiting for the results of bat rabies tests
Sorry! I sent a question to the wrong place..