Bat viruses, undead viruses, and viral vacations on TWiV
PLoS Pathogens has been a regular feature on This Week in Virology recently, with Pathogens articles being discussed in TWiV episodes 88, 89, and 90.
On Episode 88, Vincent Racaniello and co-hosts discuss the Pathogens paper ‘Reconstitution of an Infectious Human Endogenous Retrovirus’, by Young Nam Lee and Paul D. Bieniasz.
On Episode 89, titled “Where do viruses vacation?”, Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove discuss the Pathogens paper ‘Global Migration Dynamics Underlie Evolution and Persistence of Human Influenza A (H3N2)’ by Bedford et al.
Most recently, on Episode 90, “Guano Happens”, Vincent Racaniello and hosts discuss the recent Pathogens article ‘Identification of GBV-D, a Novel GB-like Flavivirus from Old World Frugivorous Bats (Pteropus giganteus) in Bangladesh’ by Epstein et al.
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