TWiV 376: The flavi of the month is Zika

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Jeremy Luban

The TWiV team 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.

• Ocular findings in infants with microcephaly (JAMA and Arq Bras Oft)


• Evidence of Zika virus infection in brain and placenta (MMWR)


• Zika virus associated with microcephaly (NEJM)


• Hard-core sequencing (Science)


• Zika virus and microcephaly (virology blog)


• Zika virus in the Americas (NEJM)


• JEV and WNV transplacental infections


• Rubella virus facts (WHO)


• Share your Zika virus reagents (virology blog)


• No link between anencephaly and Cache Valley Virus (EID)


• Image credit


• Letters read on TWiV 376

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Microbe 2016

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