311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids

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.   

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Links for this episode:

• Environmental changes fueling diseases (NY Times)
• Global change drivers and risk of infectious diseases (Nature)
• First reported cefiderocol-resistant E. coli in Canada (Clin Micro)
• E. coli cells explode (YouTube)

Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.

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