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TWiM explores how climate change may be increasing our risks to infectious disease and then how the Odyssey literally comes alive in our microbial world but fear not, unlike the Trojans, the bacteria are fighting back and have developed resistance to this novel class of newly developed antimicrobials. Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode: fueling diseases (NY Times) and risk of infectious diseases (Nature) E. coli in Canada (Clin Micro) E. coli cells (YouTube) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by and used with permission. Send your microbiology...
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TWiM explores the plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota, and survival and rapid resuscitation that permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities. Hosts: , , and . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on , , , , or by Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Plasticity of small intestinal (Cell Host Micr) (Nat Comm) How (Science Daily) (WikiCommons) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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Today on TWiM, a charcuterie invasion, and how that acid in your stomach may protect from the invading hordes of microbes. Hosts: , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Commentary: Peeling the onion: Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: , , and . Guest: Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Distinct (Nature) Bacterial (Nature) A (Nature) Spatial perspective on (Nature) (Yale Med) promotes its survival (mBio) (mBio) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites. Hosts: , , and . Subscribe to TWiM (free) on , , , , or by Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode for E. faecium bacteremia (mBio) Dopamine receptor (Nature) CDC’s Reports of Brett Finlay’s narrated Colonization resistance by (ACS Chem Biol) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM discusses the identification of natural products from reconstructed ancient bacterial genomes, and how plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection. Hosts: , , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode Natural (Science) (Cell Host Microb) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM reviews the ongoing cholera outbreak in Africa, and research showing that gut complement induced by the microbiota blocks pathogens and spares commensal bacteria. Hosts: , , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode (Africa CDC) Deadly (NY Times) in sub-Saharan Africa (Curr Op Ped) spares commensals (Cell) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM reveals a new population in the blue cheese-making fungus Penicillium roqueforti and identification of a quorum-sensing autoinducer and siderophore in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on , , , , or by Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode New (Evol Appl) (Guardian) (CNRS News) (YouTube) (ASM) (mBio) (Curr Biol) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM reveals a database of genome sequences of thousands of Mycobaterium tuberculosis, allowing association with resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiotics, and microbe-derived uremic solutes that enhance thrombosis potential in the host. Hosts: , , and . Become a of TWiM. Links for this episode (PLoS Biol) The (mBio) (mBio) (EJIFCC) (Mayo Clinic) (Zoology) Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to
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TWiM describes the mechanism for the S. aureus itch and scratch induced skin damage, and discovery of a novel class of antibiotics that targets the lipopolysaccharide transporter. Become a of TWiM. Links: S. aureus drives behavior (Cell) Staph (Cell) A of antibiotics (Nature) A of antibiotic (Nature) Novel antibiotic targets (Nature) New antibiotic (Nature) Macrocyclic (Science) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to [email protected]...
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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- Cholera in Southern Africa (Africa CDC)
- Deadly cholera outbreak in Africa (NY Times)
- Pediatric cholera in sub-Saharan Africa (Curr Op Ped)
- Gut complement spares commensals (Cell)
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