On episode 85 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Michael Gale discuss the origin, pathogenesis, prevention, of hepatitis C virus, and how it evades innate immune responses.

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Download TWiV #85 (40 MB .mp3, 56 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• The Gale Laboratory at the University of Washington
• Incredible view from the Gale laboratory ( jpg )
• Evasion and disruption of innate immune signalling by hepatitis C and West Nile viruses ( review )
• New potent HCV inhibitor
• HCV virion and genome structures at ViralZone

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