TWiV 378: Herpes plays DUBstep
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Guests: Greg Smith and Mark Fuccio
Greg Smith joins the TWiVirate to reveal how his lab discovered a switch that controls herpesvirus neuroinvasion, and then we visit the week's news about Zika virus.
Links for this episode
Dynamic ubiquitination drives herpesvirus neuroinvasion (PNAS)
Releasing Zika virus data in real time (Nature)
Zika virus infection and stillbirths (PLoS NTD)
Zika virus infection, imported, Italy (Eurosurveillance)
Letters read on TWiV 378
This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 28, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 369: Camel runny noses and other JNK
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
A swarm of virologists discusses testing of a MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels, and how a neuronal stress pathway reactivates herpes simplex virus.
Links for this episode
MERS coronavirus vaccine for camels (Science)
WHO MERS summary
Neuronal stress pathway and herpes simplex virus reactivation (Cell Host Micr)
Stress flips a chromatin switch (Cell Host Micr)
How herpes simplex virus reactivates (UNC press release)
Histone antibodies database
New antibody portal (UNC press release)
Image credit
Letters read on TWiV 369
This episode is sponsor...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 27, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
November 17 2015 Issue
1) Autoimmune post-herpes simplex encephalitis in adults and teenagers and 2) Topic of the month: Neuromyelitis optica. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Heather Harle interviews Dr. Josep Dalmau about his paper on autoimmune post-herpes simplex encephalitis in adults and teenagers. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about immunotherapy-responsive seizures. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Stacey Clardy interviews Dr. Dean Wingerchuk about th...
Source: Neurology Podcast - November 16, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: American Academy of Neurology Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 339: Herpes and the sashimi plot
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Tre TWiV amici present three snippets and a side of sashimi: how herpesvirus inhibits host cell gene expression by disrupting transcription termination.
Links for this episode
Searching for Steamer in the oceans
Lassa fever death in NJ (CDC and NYTimes)
Transgenic mouse model for MERS-CoV (J Virol)
First West Nile virus disease case in Texas
Herpesvirus disrupts host transcription termination (Nat Comm)
Sashimi plots
Broad benefits of measles virus immunization (TWiM #104)
Avian influenza outbreak (NPR)
The virome in health and disease (Immunity...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 31, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 336: Brought to you by the letters H, N, P, and Eye
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVsters explore mutations in the interferon pathway associated with severe influenza in a child, outbreaks of avian influenza in North American poultry farms, Ebolavirus infection of the eye weeks after recovery, and Ebolavirus stability on surfaces and fluids.
This episode is sponsored by @ASM Conferences and ASM Microbe
Links for this episode
Life threatening influenza and IRF7 deficiency (Science)
Whole exome sequencing (Wikipedia)
Herpes encephalitis in children with Trif deficiency (TWiV 175)
Avian influenza in ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 10, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Herpes Zoster Rates Are Increasing, but Why?
The idea that varicella vaccination beginning in 1996 is the cause of an increase in shingles cases is not supported by the evidence. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - April 14, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Fever Blisters: An Overview of Type 1 Oral Herpes
About 20-25% of the adult population is plagued with fever blisters (herpes.) Dr. Mark Barry talks in detail about Type 1 Oral Herpes and focuses on the secondary stage which often recurs in adults. Dr. Barry discusses the therapies and medications used to treat the fever blisters including prescription treatment, as well as over the counter medications. (Source: MUSC Dental Podcast)
Source: MUSC Dental Podcast - April 5, 2014 Category: Dentistry Authors: Medical University of South Carolina Source Type: podcasts
JAMA Neurology 2014-01-27, Author Interview
Interview with Benjamin M. Greenberg, MD, MHS, author of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis as a Potential Cause of Anti–N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antibody Encephalitis: Report of 2 Cases (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - January 27, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Herpes Simplex Encephalitis as a Potential Cause of Anti –N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antibody Encephalitis: Report of 2 Cases
Interview with Benjamin M. Greenberg, MD, MHS, author of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis as a Potential Cause of Anti–N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antibody Encephalitis: Report of 2 Cases (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - January 27, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Herpes simplex encephalitis
This week we look at herpes simplex encephalitis, an easily missed central nervous system infection which can have serious consequences.
Our practice editor Mabel Chew discusses the features of the illness with Tom Solomon, professor of neurological science at Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool. And podcast producer Duncan Jarvies gets... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Herpes simplex encephalitis
This week we look at herpes simplex encephalitis, an easily missed central nervous system infection which can have serious consequences.
Our practice editor Mabel Chew discusses the features of the illness with Tom Solomon, professor of neurological science at Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool. And podcast producer Duncan Jarvies gets advice on diagnosis from Adam Zeman, professor of cognitive and behavioural neurology at Peninsular Medical School. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
JAMA 2013-03-05, Vol. 309, No. 9, Audio from Weekly Author Video Interview
Interview with Kevin L Winthrop, MD, MPH, author of Association Between the Initiation of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy and the Risk of Herpes Zoster (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 5, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Association Between the Initiation of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy and the Risk of Herpes Zoster
Interview with Kevin L Winthrop, MD, MPH, author of Association Between the Initiation of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy and the Risk of Herpes Zoster (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 5, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
