This Week in Virology
Vincent Racaniello
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.
Episodes
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Oct 17, 2008 • 37min
TWiV #4 - Rabies
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier CDC page on rabies Dick’s Ecology 101 course Ecotone defined Negri bodies defined (down on the page)
Oct 2, 2008 • 43min
TWiV #3 - Dengue
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Article on the mortgage crisis and West Nile virus in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Environment-oriented review of Dengue. Dengue page at the World Health Organization.
Sep 26, 2008 • 50min
TWiV #2 - Polio is not dead
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio. Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”.
Sep 24, 2008 • 1h 31min
TWiV #1 - West Nile Virus
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier. Buy “West Nile Story” by Dickson Despommier. ProMed Mail. The global reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious disease. PubMed. A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. West Nile page at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Great maps of where the virus has been found.
