TWiM #153: Covert pathogenesis

The TWiM team ventures into preprint space with an analysis of type VI secretion across human gut microbiomes, and provide insight into urinary tract infection: how bladder exposure to a member of the vaginal microbiota triggers E. coli egress from latent reservoirs.

Hosts: 

Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Elio Schaechter.

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2017

• TWiM Live from ASM Microbe 2017

• Landscape of type VI secretion (BioRxiv)

• Type VI secretion structure (jpg)

• Activation of dormant E. coli in urinary tract infection (PLoS Path)

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