Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Gale
On episode 85 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Michael Gale discuss the origin, pathogenesis, prevention, of hepatitis C virus, and how it evades innate immune responses.
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Links for this episode:
- The Gale Laboratory at the University of Washington
- Incredible view from the Gale laboratory (jpg)
- Evasion and disruption of innate immune signalling by hepatitis C and West Nile viruses (review)
- New potent HCV inhibitor
- HCV virion and genome structures at ViralZone
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