TWiM #121: A plague of pathogens
This Week in Microbiology · American Society for Microbiology
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Show Notes
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Special guests: Rebekah Kading and Wyndham Lathem
From the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting, Vincent speaks with Rebekah and Wyndham about their work on Rift Valley Fever virus and other vector-borne pathogens, and the evolution and pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague.
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Links for this episode- Rift Valley fever virus risk (Emerg Micr Inf)
- Predicting Rift Valley fever virus transmission (PLoS NTD)
- Culex in New York City (BioOne)
- Early emergence of Y. pestis (Nature Comm)
- Pneumonic plague (Trends Micro)
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