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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- Register for ASV 2017 8:25
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- Chikungunya virus vaccine using insect virus platform (Nat Med) 26:50
- Ebola vaccine results (NYTimes, paper) 58:15
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