TWiV 340: No shift, measles

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiV teams reviews a MERS-coronavirus serosurvey and an outbreak in South Korea, and constraints on measles virus antigenic variation.

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Links for this episode

• Richard Elliott on TWiV 177 3:25
• MERS-CoV outbreak, South Korea (ProMedMail) 16:50
• MERS-CoV serosurvey (Lancet Inf Dis) 27:25
• Biolabs in your backyard (USA Today) 32:40
• Constraints on measles virus antigenic variation (Cell Rep) 47:20
• Selection bias and bombers (John D. Cook) 50:00
• Virology (journal)
• Image credit: Cameron Moll
• Letters read on TWiV 340 4:20, 20:05, 46:45, 1:10:35

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thank you!

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