TWiV 340: No shift, measles
Jun 07, 2015•1 hr 57 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV teams reviews a MERS-coronavirus serosurvey and an outbreak in South Korea, and constraints on measles virus antigenic variation.
Links for this episode- Richard Elliott on TWiV 177
- MERS-CoV outbreak, South Korea (ProMedMail)
- MERS-CoV serosurvey (Lancet Inf Dis)
- Biolabs in your backyard (USA Today)
- Constraints on measles virus antigenic variation (Cell Rep)
- Selection bias and bombers (John D. Cook)
- Virology (journal)
- Image credit: Cameron Moll
- Letters read on TWiV 340
Dickson - Singapore Flower Dome and Cloud ForestAlan - Rescuing biomedical researchKathy - The value of basic researchRich - Virology 60th Anniversary IssueVincent - Careers in virology: Science writing and journalism
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