TWiV reviews lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus seroprevalence among urban pregnant women and newborns in Philadelphia, and a functional translation initiation complex encoded in the genome of giant viruses that drives synthesis of viral structural proteins.
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Links for this episode- Support science education at MicrobeTV Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) LCMV seroprevalence among pregnant women (Emerg Inf Dis) Giant viruses encode functional vIF4F (Cell) Ribosomal proteins encoded in viral genomes (virology blog) Letters read on TWiV 1301 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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