TWiV 383: A zillion Zika papers and a Brazilian
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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