A hitchiker's guide to virology

TWiV reviews the appearance of poliovirus in Europe, mystery disease in DRC, global burden of Chikungunya, viruses of parasitic nematodes that induce antibody responses in vertebrate hosts, and picobirnaviruses, do they infect eukaryotes or prokaryotes?

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey

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Links for this episode

• ASV 2025
• Write your senators about RFK Jr
• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Poliovirus in Europe (WHO)
• DRC mystery disease (Reuters)
• Global burden of chikungunya (BMJ Global Health)
• RNA viruses of parasitic nematodes (Nat Micro)
• Picobirnaviruses encode bacterial lysins (PNAS)
• Prokaryotic ribosome binding site in picobirnavirus genome (Virology)
• Letters read on TWiV 1175
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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