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Published: April 3, 2016, 3:04 p.m.

Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove\xa0and\xa0Kathy Spindler

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Guest:\xa0Esper Kallas

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Esper and\xa0the Merry TWiXters analyze the latest data on Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil, and discuss publications on a mouse model for disease, infection of a fetus, mosquito vector competence, and the cryo-EM structure of the virus particle.

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\nLinks for this episode\n

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• Zika virus in the Americas (Science)
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• Co-circulation of dengue, Zika, chik in Brazil (Medicine)
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• Murine model for Zika virus infection (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
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• Zika virus susceptibility of A. aegypti and A. albopictus (PLoS NTD)
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• Infectious Zika virus from saliva (EuroSurveill)
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• Zika virus\xa0spread through saliva? (Braz Oral Res)
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• Five\xa0Zika virus reviews (one, two, three, four, five)
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• Zika virus and microcephaly, Brazil (MMWR)
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• Zika virus in urine (EuroSurveill)
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• Zika virus infection of fetus (NEJM)
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• Real-time sharing of Zika virus data (JAMA)
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• Image credit: Richard Kuhn
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• Letters read on TWiV 383
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This episode is sponsored by ASM\xa0Agar Art Contest and\xa0ASV 2016

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