TWiV 217: I just flu in and my arms are shot
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
January 26, 20131h 34m
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson review influenza vaccines.
Links for this episode:- FDA licensed flu vaccines
- Seasonal influenza vaccine distributed
- How flu vaccine strains are selected (one, two)
- WHO report on flu vaccine strain selection (pdf)
- Derek Smith on antigenic mapping
- Salk's 1945 influenza vaccine
- TIV preparation: Fluzone, Agriflu, Fluvirin, Fluarix, Flulaval, Afluria (pdfs)
- LAIV preparation (pdf)
- Efficacy of flu vaccine 2012-13 (MMWR, virology blog)
- Meta-analysis of flu vaccine efficacy (Lancet)
- Two new flu vaccines FDA approved
- Flublok
- Flublok clinical trial
- Pandemrix and narcolepsy (Yahoo, PLoS One, PLoS One)
- CIDRAP analysis of flu vaccines
- Letters read on TWiV 217
Rich - Repoopulate (original article), Robogut (new clinical trial)Alan - WTF, Evolution?Dickson - The Beauty and Benefits of ScienceVincent - Supercomputing modeling of poliovirus
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