TWiV 430: The persistence of herpesvirus
Feb 26, 2017•1 hr 44 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiX cabal discuss sexual transmission of Zika virus in mice, and how immune escape enables herpes simplex virus escape from latency.
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Links for this episode- Nido2017 Meeting
- ASM Clinical Virology Symposium
- Zika virus sexual transmission in mice (Cell Rep)
- Viral RNA is not infectious virus (virology blog)
- Methyl-phospho switch (TWiV 369)
- Immune escape of herpesvirus from latency (Cell Rep)
- Restarting lytic gene expression (J Virol)
- Letters read on TWiV 430
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