Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVniks discuss the structure of a virus that reproduces in an extreme environment, long-term consequences of Ebolavirus infection, and VirScan, a method to identify the different virus infections you have had in your lifetime.

Links for this episode

• Virus with A-form DNA (Science)
• Viruses in the extreme (virology blog)
• Sequelae of Ebolavirus infection (Lancet Inf Dis)
• Long term Ebolavirus effects (virology blog)
• Take the chili ME challenge
• Serological profiling of human viral infections (Science)
• Your viral past (virology blog)
• Letters read on TWiV 342

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thank you!

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