virology blog
About viruses and viral disease
Tony Schountz joins TWiV to explain the work of his laboratory showing that deer mice can be infected with and transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how his colony of Jamaican fruit bats is being used to understand their response to virus infections.
Click arrow to play
Download TWiV 668 (64 MB .mp3, 106 min)
Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email
Become a patron of TWiV!
Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv
The TWiV team summarizes the discovery of Sin Nombre virus, and presents evidence that neurotropic flaviviruses can cause intestinal dysmotility syndromes after systemic infection of mice.
Click arrow to play
Download TWiV 527 (53 MB .mp3, 87 min)
Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email
Become a patron of TWiV!
Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv
On episode #240 of the science show This Week in Virology, Â Vincent travels to the University of Vermont to talk with Markus and Jason about their work on HIV, influenza virus, arenaviruses and hantaviruses.
You can find TWiV #240 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.
On episode #199 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy discuss recent outbreaks of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Yosemite National Park and novel swine-origin influenza in the US midwest, and isolation of the Heartland virus from two patients in Missouri with severe febrile illness.
You can find TWiV #199 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.