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Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and\xa0Kathy Spindler

A plaque of virologists explores the biology of Zika virus and\xa0recent outbreaks, and the contribution of a filamentous bacteriophage to the development of biofilms.

Links for this episode

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• More cowbell (Wikipedia)
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• Microcephaly in Brazil (Outbreak News)
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• Non-vector borne Zika transmission (EID)
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• Zika virus outside Africa (EID)
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• Zika virus possible sexual transmission (EID)
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• Zika virus in saliva (J Clin Virol)
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• Dengue's cousin Zika (Micr Inf)
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• Filamentous phage promote biofilm assembly (Cell Host Micr)
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• Biofilm history (MSU)
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• Pseudomonas phage Pf1
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• Image\xa0credit
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• Letters read\xa0on TWiV 368
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This episode is sponsored by Clinical Virology Symposium and\xa0ASM Microbe

Alan\xa0- Twelve days of norovirus
Vincent\xa0- This Week in Evolution
Rich - In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Kathy - Kajanjian lecture on Frederick Novy and Milestones ceremony at UM

Peter\xa0- What if anti-vax, anti-science movement won?
Stephen\xa0- Scandalous origin of vaccines
Pritesh - Absurd way of doing business

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