TWiV 546: Delta blues and chitlins

The un-encapsidated TWiV Humans discuss finding hepatitis D virus-related sequences in birds and snakes, and fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by a coronavirus of bat origin.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

• European Virus Archive
• ASV early bird registrationends 15 May
• FDA approves Dengvaxia
• Divergent hepatitis D-like agentin birds(Viruses)
• Novel deltavirus in snakes(mBio)
• SADS-coronavirusin piglets (Nature)
• Hosts and sources of endemic human coronaviruses(Adv Virus Res)
• Image credit
• Letters readon TWiV 546
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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