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TWiV reviews lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus seroprevalence among urban pregnant women and newborns in Philadelphia, and a functional translation initiation complex encoded in the genome of giant viruses that drives synthesis of viral structural proteins.
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- LCMV seroprevalence among pregnant women (Emerg Inf Dis)
- Giant viruses encode functional vIF4F (Cell)
- Ribosomal proteins encoded in viral genomes (virology blog)
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