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

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