This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) host, Vincent Racaniello, sits down with Rebekah Kading and Wyndham Lathem at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting to have a conversation about their work on Rift Valley Fever virus and other vector-borne pathogens, and the evolution and pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague.
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Links for this episode
- Rift Valley fever virus risk (Emerg Micr Inf)
- Predicting Rift Valley fever virus transmission (PLoS NTD)
- Culex in New York City (BioOne)
- Early emergence of Y. pestis (Nature Comm)
- Pneumonic plague (Trends Micro)
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