Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, William Bishai, John Brownstein, and Victor Nizet.
Vincent and Michael travel to San Francisco for the 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), where they meet with Bill, John, and Victor to discuss tuberculosis, monitoring infectious disease outbreaks with online data, and outside-the-box approaches to antibacterial therapy.
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Links for this episode:
- M. tuberculosis virulence factor (PlosOne)
- HealthMap
- Social and news media in 2012 Haitian cholera outbreak (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
- Flu near you
- Hypoxia-inducing factor and neutriphil extracellular traps (Biochem J)
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urrent influenza vaccines are limited because they can only stimulate immunity to specific strains of the virus, which is constantly evolving. This means a new vaccine must be developed every year to target the strains public health officials believe will be most prevalent that season.
Posted by: Rock Denim | February 22, 2013 at 05:14 AM
Bambuser test screen is just the embed of the live stream player from Bambuser.com. The counter is actually the current time. When we go live from ICAAC the test screen will disappear and be replaced by video from the event.
Posted by: Richard | February 22, 2013 at 02:59 AM