The TWiVerati discuss the FDA Advisory Committee deliberation on the anti-poxvirus drug tecovirimat, and immune cells in gut-associated lymphoid tissue as the major target during acute murine norovirus infection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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Links for this episode
- ASM Microbe 2018
- Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
- Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine
- FDA meeting materials for tecovirimat (FDA)
- SIGA Briefing Information (pdf)
- Errata to the SIGA Briefing Information (pdf)
- Gut immune cells major targets of norovirus infection (Nat Micro)
- RNAscope (J Mol Diag)
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- Letters read on TWiV 493
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