episode 1063: Childhood paralysis with Kevin Messacar
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
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- 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
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