This Week in Virology #65: Matt's bats

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matthew Frieman

Vincent, Alan, and Matt discuss a project to study the RNA virome of Northeastern American bats, failure to detect XMRV in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients, and DNA of bornavirus, an RNA virus, in mammalian genomes.

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Links for this episode:

• Mist net Indigo Tunnel, Western Maryland Railway (jpg)
• Eric Donaldson and Amy Haskew with bat in holding bag (jpg)
• XMRV not detected in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients (virology blog)
• Bornavirus DNA in the mammalian genome
• Arenavirus DNA can be integrated into the cell genome
• Rabid raccoons in Central Park, NYC

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