Description

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

Guest: Esper Kallas

Esper and the Merry TWiXters analyze the latest data on Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil, and discuss publications on a mouse model for disease, infection of a fetus, mosquito vector competence, and the cryo-EM structure of the virus particle.

Links for this episode

• Zika virus in the Americas (Science)
• Co-circulation of dengue, Zika, chik in Brazil (Medicine)
• Murine model for Zika virus infection (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
• Zika virus susceptibility of A. aegypti and A. albopictus (PLoS NTD)
• Infectious Zika virus from saliva (EuroSurveill)
• Zika virus spread through saliva? (Braz Oral Res)
• Five Zika virus reviews (one, two, three, four, five)
• Zika virus and microcephaly, Brazil (MMWR)
• Zika virus in urine (EuroSurveill)
• Zika virus infection of fetus (NEJM)
• Real-time sharing of Zika virus data (JAMA)
• Image credit: Richard Kuhn
• Letters read on TWiV 383

This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and ASV 2016

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Alan - Science Kombat
Dickson - Four steps to wiping out a mosquito
Vincent - Public lacks information on Zika virus
Kathy - Zika virus cryo-EM structure video

Listener Picks

Justin - Culture-independent discovery of Archaeal virus
Melinda - Zika virus open research portal and Your body battles series

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