TWiV 406: Pow, right in the enteroids!

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

The TWiV team discussed eye infections caused by Zika virus, failure of Culex mosquitoes to transmit the virus, and replication of norovirus in stem cell derived enteroids.

 

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Links for this episode

• Florida DOH daily Zika update
• Congress fails again on Zika (NY Times)
• Culex pipiens does not support Zika virus replication (EID)
• Zika virus in the eye (Cell Rep)
• Norovirus replication in enteroids (Science)
• Norovirus replication in B cells (TWiV 312)
• Baylor press release
• Norovirus replication in B cells confirmed (Antiviral Res)
• Letters read on TWiV 406

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