TWiV 515: When virus is in retrograde

The TWiV team notes the passing of Tom Steitz, an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis in the US, a continuing Ebola virus outbreak in DRC, respiratory vaccinia due to inhalation of ground up rabbit skin, and how a human papillomavirus capsid protein directs virus-containing endosomes towards the nucleus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• Sea Phages program and application materials
• Tom Steitz, 78 (NY Times)
• AFM outbreak, US (CIDRAP)
• AFM surveillance (CDC)
• Acute Flaccid Paralysis and Enteroviral Infections (Curr Inf Dis Rep)
• EV-D68 neurotropism (bioRxiv)
• Ebola virus outbreakcontinues in DRC (CIDRAP)
• Vaccinia virus respiratory infection (Int J Inf Dis)
• HPV L2 penetrates endosome, brings virus retro (Cell)
• Letters read on TWiV 515
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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