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TWiV 168: Super CalTech prophylaxis and ferret runny noses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Welkin Johnson

Welkin joins the TWiV team for a discussion of HIV prophlaxis using vectored antibodies, and the influenza H5N1 virus studies in ferrets that were not redacted.

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Links for this episode:

• Vectored HIV immunoprophylaxis (Nature)
• Vectored immunoprophylaxis - the Movie (YouTube)
• Adeno-associated virus (Wikipedia)
• In vitro evolution of H5N1 towards human receptor specificity (Virology)
• Endogenous viral genes non-essential in chicken (Nature)
• Rates of HIV transmission per coital act (J Inf Dis)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 168

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