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TWiV 28: SARS

by Vincent Racaniello on April 19, 2009

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Eric F. Donaldson

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Eric F. Donaldson discuss a new test for influenza H5N1, poliovirus in Minnesota, Koala retrovirus, batteries made from viruses, and SARS.
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TWiV 27: Leaving latency

by Vincent Racaniello on April 4, 2009

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Saul Silverstein

Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Saul Silverstein revisit an ebolavirus needlestick accident, and discuss the role of TLR3 in formation of Negri bodies, a New England college closed by norovirus gastroenteritis, hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreak in China, and the exit of herpes simplex virus from [...]

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TWiV 11: Elite controllers, mosquitoes, and winter vomiting

by Vincent Racaniello on December 13, 2008

Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Alan Dove and Jeremy Luban
Vincent, Alan, and Jeremy discuss why certain AIDS patients, called ‘elite controllers’ or ‘long-term non-progressors’, do not develop disease, why mosquitoes infected with Sindbis virus remain healthy, and the continuing outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis.
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Immunity article on elite controllers.
PNAS article on protected mosquitoes.
The word quarantine comes [...]

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