TWiV 1359: SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles

This Week in Virology by Vincent Racaniello

Sep 20, 202601:10:13Science & Medicine

Roberto Cattaneo and Kalpana Yadav join TWiV at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Virology to discuss how the absence of measles virus receptors in the brain selects for hyperfusogenic variants that spread neu...

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