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This Week in Parasitism

TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out

84 min • 2 september 2014

Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection of mice with helminths induces cytokines that reactivate a latent gamma-herpesvirus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Links for this episode:

Helminths reactivate herpesvirus (Science)
How helminths go viral (Science)
Herpesvirus latency protects from bacterial infection (Nature)
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