Episode Details

The TWiVerati discuss the FDA Advisory Committee deliberation on the anti-poxvirus drug tecovirimat, and immune cells in gut-associated lymphoid tissue as the major target during acute murine norovirus infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2018
• Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
• Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine
• FDA meeting materials for tecovirimat(FDA)
• SIGA Briefing Information (pdf)
• Errata to the SIGA Briefing Information (pdf)
• Gut immune cells major targets of norovirus infection(Nat Micro)
• RNAscope(J Mol Diag)
• Image credit
• Letters readon TWiV 493

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