Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Hosts: Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss growth in culture of newly identified rhinovirus C, vaccinia transmission among wrestlers and martial artists, and results of phase III clinical trial of boceprevir, a new inhibitor of hepatitis C virus replication.
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Links for this episode:
- Growth of newly identified rhinovirus C (Nature Medicine)
- Global distribution of rhinovirus C (EID)
- Vaccinia transmission among wrestlers (EID)
- Vaccine transmission in a martial arts gym (EID)
- Boceprevir for untreated HCV infection (NEJM)
- Boceprevir for previously treated HCV infection (NEJM)
- HCV antiviral pipeline
- The good viruses (Nat Rev Micro)
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 130
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