Virology

Fatal yellow fever in a transplant recipient

Infection with yellow fever virus caused the death of a patient 25 years after receiving a kidney transplant, illustrating the difficulties associated with some medical vaccine exemptions. The patient had received a kidney transplant at the age of 58 in February 1993. Nearly 25 years later he was admitted to ...

TWiV 548: Mice, shrews, and caterpillars

https://youtu.be/l33laF8ZkPA Vincent travels to the European Congress of Virology in Rotterdam and with local co-host Marion Koopmans speaks with Martin Beer, Stephan Gunther, and Vera Ross about their careers and their work on Lassa virus, Borna virus, and insect viruses. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 548 (43 MB .mp3, 72 min) ...

Michael Rossmann, 88

https://youtu.be/LJDkocKSQv8 Michael Rossmann, a leader in the use of X-ray crystallography and cry-electron microscopy to solve the structure of viruses, died on 14 May 2019 at the age of 88. I met Michael many times but had the good fortune to interview him during the preparation of the fourth edition ...

TWiV 547: Upstate virology

https://youtu.be/NljaZLYtSvg Vincent travels to the University at Albany to speak with Cara, Rachel, and Alex about their careers and their work on stress granules, epitranscriptomics, and arboviruses. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 547 (58 MB .mp3, 96 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv

A risky vaccine

by Gertrud U. Rey Dengue fever, caused by dengue virus (DENV), is of substantial public health significance in the tropics, where the virus is spread by Aedes mosquitoes. Last week the FDA announced its approval of a first vaccine for the prevention of dengue disease in endemic areas. The vaccine approved by ...
Scroll to Top