TWiV 421: Like flies on shot

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

Guest: Nathan Letts

The TWiVnauts present another example of an infectious but replication incompetent vaccine, an insect specific arborvirus bearing chikungunya virus structural proteins.

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Links for this episode

• Register for ASV 2017 8:25
• ASM-ASV Conference on Interplay of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens 10:25
• Chikungunya virus vaccine using insect virus platform (Nat Med) 26:50
• Ebola vaccine results (NYTimes, paper) 58:15
• Letters read on TWiV 421 13:20, 1:05:00

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