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TWiV #11 – Elite controllers, mosquitoes, and winter vomiting

13 December 2008 by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology #11 has been posted at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

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In this episode,  Vincent, Alan, and guest Jeremy Luban discuss why certain AIDS patients, called ‘elite controllers’ or ‘long-term non-progressors’, do not develop disease, why mosquitoes infected with Sindbis virus remain healthy, and the continuing outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis.

Filed Under: Information Tagged With: AIDS, HIV, norovirus, Sindbis, TWiV

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