TWiV 383: A zillion Zika papers and a Brazilian
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Esper Kallas
Esper and the Merry TWiXters analyze the latest data on Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil, and discuss publications on a mouse model for disease, infection of a fetus, mosquito vector competence, and the cryo-EM structure of the virus particle.
Links for this episode
- Zika virus in the Americas (Science)
- Co-circulation of dengue, Zika, chik in Brazil (Medicine)
- Murine model for Zika virus infection (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
- Zika virus susceptibility of A. aegypti and A. albopictus (PLoS NTD)
- Infectious Zika virus from saliva (EuroSurveill)
- Zika virus spread through saliva? (Braz Oral Res)
- Five Zika virus reviews (one, two, three, four, five)
- Zika virus and microcephaly, Brazil (MMWR)
- Zika virus in urine (EuroSurveill)
- Zika virus infection of fetus (NEJM)
- Real-time sharing of Zika virus data (JAMA)
- Image credit: Richard Kuhn
- Letters read on TWiV 383
This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and ASV 2016
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