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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0Rich Condit, and\\xa0Kathy Spindler

Guest:\\xa0Jeremy Luban

The TWiV\\xa0team discusses the latest data on Zika virus, including ocular defects in infants with microcephaly, and isolation of the entire viral genome from fetal brain tissue.

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Links for this episode

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• Ocular findings in infants with microcephaly (JAMA\\xa0and\\xa0Arq Bras Oft)
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• Evidence of\\xa0Zika virus infection\\xa0in brain and placenta (MMWR)
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• Zika virus\\xa0associated with\\xa0microcephaly (NEJM)
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• Hard-core\\xa0sequencing\\xa0(Science)
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• Zika virus and microcephaly\\xa0(virology blog)
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• Zika virus in the Americas\\xa0(NEJM)
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• JEV\\xa0and\\xa0WNV\\xa0transplacental infections
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• Rubella virus\\xa0facts (WHO)
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• Share\\xa0your Zika virus reagents (virology blog)
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• No link between\\xa0anencephaly\\xa0and Cache Valley Virus (EID)
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• Image credit
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• Letters read\\xa0on TWiV 376
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This episode is sponsored by\\xa032nd Clinical Virology Symposium\\xa0and\\xa0ASM\\xa0Microbe 2016

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