TWiV 581: Alimentary particles
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For the first TWiV of 2020 we reveal that microbiome depletion with antibiotics alters the immune response to influenza vaccine, and how successive blood meals facilitate virus dissemination in mosquitoes and transmission potential.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- ASV 2020
- Vaccines are safe and effective (Science)
- Microbiome perturbation alters response to flu vaccine (Cell)
- Successive blood meals aid virus dissemination in mosquitoes (Nat Micro)
- Letters read on TWiV 581
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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Intro music is by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees.
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