TWiV 572: Your EV-D68th nervous breakdown
Episode 572 of the This Week in Virology podcast, hosted by Vincent Racaniello, titled "TWiV 572: Your EV-D68th nervous breakdown" was published on November 3, 2019 and runs 121 minutes.
November 3, 2019 ·121m · This Week in Virology
Episode Description
Amy joins the TWiV team to review evidence that enterovirus D68 is an etiologic agent of childhood paralysis, and her finding that the ability of the virus to infect cells of the nervous system is not a recently acquired property.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Amy Rosenfeld
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Links for this episode
- EV-D68 antibodies in humans before 2014 outbreak (Emerg Inf Dis)
- Enterovirus antibodies in CSF of AFM patients (mBio)
- Serology implicates enteroviruses in AFM (Nat Med)
- EV-D68 neurotropism is not new (mBio)
- Letters read on TWiV 572
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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