TWiV 254: Ninety-nine macaques on the wall

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy review clearance of simian immunodeficiency virus infection from macaques by immunization with SIV proteins encoded in a rhesus cytomegalovirus vector.
Links for this episode:

Immune clearance of SIV infection (Nature)
Rhesus CMV vectors (Nature Medicine)
Types of memory T cells (WikiPedia)
Goldilocks approach to vaccines (Scilogs)
Chimeric HA influenza vaccine (J Virol)
Influenza vaccine matched vs mismatched (BMC Medicine)
Letters read on TWiV 254

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Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 13, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts