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TWiV Live in the Windy City (MWV53)

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Created on Sunday, 18 September 2011 18:17

Written by Ray Ortega

Episode 53 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on September 17, 2011, features a live recorded video episode of This Week in Virology (TWiV), a podcast about viruses.

Host Vincent and co-host Rich, along with guests Mark and Trine, discuss science and medicine in journalism and the eradication of poliovirus at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

Links for this episode:

• ICAAC 2011
• Recent Chicago Tribune articles by Trine
• Polio eradication initiative
• CDC 101: Zombie Apocalypse
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 149

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This episode of MWV and TWiV is sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell, the leading scientific publisher of books, scholarly journals, major reference works and databases. This month they are offering 25%-off all Microbiology and Virology books. To take advantage of this offer go to www.wiley.com/go/microbeworld.

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