Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Esper Kallas
Esper and the Merry TWiXters analyze the latest data on Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil, and discuss publications on a mouse model for disease, infection of a fetus, mosquito vector competence, and the cryo-EM structure of the virus particle.
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- Zika virus in the Americas (Science) 37:00
- Co-circulation of dengue, Zika, chik in Brazil (Medicine) 47:10
- Murine model for Zika virus infection (Am J Trop Med Hyg) 48:40
- Zika virus susceptibility of A. aegypti and A. albopictus (PLoS NTD) 55:25
- Infectious Zika virus from saliva (EuroSurveill) 52:05
- Zika virus spread through saliva? (Braz Oral Res) 53:00
- Five Zika virus reviews (one, two, three, four, five) 59:30
- Zika virus and microcephaly, Brazil (MMWR)
- Zika virus in urine (EuroSurveill) 1:26:50
- Zika virus infection of fetus (NEJM) 1:01:20
- Zika virus cryo-EM structure (Science) 1:07:10
- Real-time sharing of Zika virus data (JAMA) 1:55:55
- Image credit: Richard Kuhn
- Letters read on TWiV 383 1:03:05
This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and ASV 2016 4:10, 1:28:30
Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!
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