TWiV 384: Agent 003, a view to a fish kill
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Rich Condit
Guests: Nischay Mishra and Ian Lipkin
Nischay and Ian join the TWiVions to discuss mass die-offs of tilapia by a novel orthomyxo-like virus, Ian's editorial on the movie Vaxxed, and new vaccines to prevent dengue virus infections, including a human challenge model.
Links for this episode
- Novel orthomyxo-like virus in Tilapia die-offs (mBio)
- Fish flu (TWiV 41)
- Anti-vaccination lunacy won't stop (WSJ)
- Single-dose dengue vaccine effective (J Inf Dis)
- Dengue vaccine needs (J Inf Dis)
- Composition of TV003 (J Inf Dis)
- Dengue vaccine mutagenesis (Curr Top Micr Imm)
- Dengue human challenge model (Sci Transl Med)
- Yellow fever alarm (STAT)
- Experiment: Zika virus
- UC Berkeley Microbiology Student Symposium
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 384
This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest, ASM Grant Writing Course, and ASV 2016
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