Andrew

[Andrew @dremore96]

Berlin Patient #1 was a long-term nonprogressor who was essentially cured of HIV #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

HIV reverts back to early stage co-receptor tropism when it infects a new host #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 have only been isolated in three people, so do we count them as human viruses? #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Pat Brown created the impossible burger, a heme infused plant-based "ham"burger... he also invented DNA microarrays! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Retroviruses integrate throughout the human genome because they don't need homologous sequences #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Retroviruses cannot reassort their genome, but they can recombine their two RNA chromosomes! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

About 1% of births in the U.S. result in neonatal cytomegalovirus infection #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

miRNAs are used by both CMV and the host to regulate each other #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

CMV has the largest genome of the human viruses, but mimiviruses have bigger ones and infect protozoans #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

CMV may have implication in cardiovascular disease, but it usually results in asymptomatic infection! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

If you take steroids, like prednisone, for allergic reactions, you are more susceptible to herpes reemergence #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Macacine herpesvirus 1 is the only zoonsis in the family! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

This week in ICTV is being extra... herpesviruses have been renamed and put into alpha, beta, and gamma subfamilies #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

There are nine herpesviruses that infect humans! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

If there's a nonavalent HPV vaccine, why wouldn't you get it?!?! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Dr. Bernice Eddy was the first scientist to associate SV40 and polyomaviruses with oncogenesis #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Some bacteria and worms have been found to be oncogenic agents! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Taxonomy was fun before ICTV got to it... #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

We still don't know the patient's name behind BK polyomavirus! #humansandviruses

[Andrew @dremore96]

Louis Pasteur saved the silkworm industry, informed others of milk-borne disease, and formulated a rabies vaccine, but unfortunately he predated the Nobel Prize! #humansandviruses