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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Nathan Letts
The TWiVnauts present another example of an infectious but replication incompetent vaccine, an insect specific arborvirus bearing chikungunya virus structural proteins.
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Links for this episode- Register for ASV 2017
- ASM-ASV Conference on Interplay of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens
- Chikungunya virus vaccine using insect virus platform (Nat Med)
- Ebola vaccine results (NYTimes, paper)
- Letters read on TWiV 421
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