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This Week in Virology

TWiV 1063: Childhood paralysis with Kevin Messacar

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Messacar visits the Incubator to discuss his career as a pediatric infectious disease physician, and his work on enteroviruses that are associated with acute flaccid myelitis and other diseases. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Kevin Messacar Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Global Scholar Travel Awards (ASV) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) Emergence of EV-D68 (Microbio Spectr) 2014 outbreak of EV-D68 (J Med Virol) EV-D68 shedding in households (Emerg Inf Dis) EV-A71 outbreak in Colorado (Lancet Inf Dis) Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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From Microbe TV, this is Twiv, this weekend virology, a special episode recorded on September 26,

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2023.

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I'm Vincent Rachin-yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.

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Today we're coming to you from the incubator in New York City.

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And I have a special guest for you.

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He is from the University of Colorado,

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where he is a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases.

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Kevin Messikar, welcome to Twib.

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