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TWiV 126: Wart's up, doc?

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Michelle Ozbun

On episode #126 of the podcast This Week in Virology, virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.

Right-click to download TWiV #126 (69 MB .mp3, 96 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Human papillomavirus page at CDC
• Human papillomavirus vaccines page at CDC
• A better test for HPV (pdf)
• Human papillomaviruses and malignancy (review)
• Should smallpox stocks be destroyed? (poll at virology blog)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 126

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Vincent - CIDRAP - Center for Disease Research and Policy

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