Episode Details

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

A plaque of virologists explores the biology of Zika virus and recent outbreaks, and the contribution of a filamentous bacteriophage to the development of biofilms.

Links for this episode

• More cowbell (Wikipedia)
• Microcephaly in Brazil (Outbreak News)
• Non-vector borne Zika transmission (EID)
• Zika virus outside Africa (EID)
• Zika virus possible sexual transmission (EID)
• Zika virus in saliva (J Clin Virol)
• Dengue's cousin Zika (Micr Inf)
• Filamentous phage promote biofilm assembly (Cell Host Micr)
• Biofilm history (MSU)
• Pseudomonas phage Pf1
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 368

This episode is sponsored by Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Microbe

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