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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV teams reviews a MERS-coronavirus serosurvey and an outbreak in South Korea, and constraints on measles virus antigenic variation.
Links for this episode
- Richard Elliott on TWiV 177
- MERS-CoV outbreak, South Korea (ProMedMail)
- MERS-CoV serosurvey (Lancet Inf Dis)
- Biolabs in your backyard (USA Today)
- Constraints on measles virus antigenic variation (Cell Rep)
- Selection bias and bombers (John D. Cook)
- Virology (journal)
- Image credit: Cameron Moll
- Letters read on TWiV 340
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