TWiV 122: More fun than a monkey full of viruses

japanese macaquesHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan DoveRich Condit, and Welkin Johnson

On episode #122 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5.

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