TWiV 376: The flavi of the month is Zika

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

Guest: Jeremy Luban

The TWiV team discusses the latest data on Zika virus, including ocular defects in infants with microcephaly, and isolation of the entire viral genome from fetal brain tissue.

 

Links for this episode

• Ocular findings in infants with microcephaly (JAMA and Arq Bras Oft)
• Evidence of Zika virus infection in brain and placenta (MMWR)
• Zika virus associated with microcephaly (NEJM)
• Hard-core sequencing (Science)
• Zika virus and microcephaly (virology blog)
• Zika virus in the Americas (NEJM)
• JEV and WNV transplacental infections
• Rubella virus facts (WHO)
• Share your Zika virus reagents (virology blog)
• No link between anencephaly and Cache Valley Virus (EID)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 376

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Microbe 2016

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