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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
A plaque of virologists explores the biology of Zika virus and recent outbreaks, and the contribution of a filamentous bacteriophage to the development of biofilms.
Links for this episode
- More cowbell (Wikipedia)
- Microcephaly in Brazil (Outbreak News)
- Non-vector borne Zika transmission (EID)
- Zika virus outside Africa (EID)
- Zika virus possible sexual transmission (EID)
- Zika virus in saliva (J Clin Virol)
- Dengue's cousin Zika (Micr Inf)
- Filamentous phage promote biofilm assembly (Cell Host Micr)
- Biofilm history (MSU)
- Pseudomonas phage Pf1
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 368
This episode is sponsored by Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Microbe
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