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TWiV 1093: Reservoir bats and jumbo phage
Episode 1093

TWiV 1093: Reservoir bats and jumbo phage

This Week in Virology

March 3, 20241h 55m

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Show Notes

TWiV discusses effectiveness of this season's flu vaccine, efficacy of Pfizer RSV vaccine, nOPV2 in the US, dengue in Peru, measles in Michigan and Indiana, how coordinated inflammatory responses dictate control of Marburg virus by reservoir bats, and tRNA acquisition in phages driven by degradation of host translational machinery.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey

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