About this episode
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Vincent and Rich discuss fruit fly viruses, one year without polio in Nigeria, and a permissive Marek's disease viral vaccine that allows transmission of virulent viruses.
Links for this episode
- Virology tenure-track position at NCI (pdf)
- ASM Agar Art Contest
- Nigeria on brink of polio eradication (Nature)
- Dengue in Africa (Tyler Sharp)
- Permissive vaccines and virulence (PLoS Biol)
- Marek's disease vaccines and virulence (Ed Yong)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 348
This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP
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