333: When Mutualists Murder
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson,Petra Levin
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TWiM explains how a mutualistic model bacterium can become lethal in a non-symbiotic host, and engineering a kill switch into a tuberculosis vaccine for improved safety.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Links for this episode- When a mutualist becomes lethal (mBio)
- A lasting symbiosis (Nat Rev Micro)
- A kill switch for BCG (Nat Micro)
- Engineering mycobacteria for vaccination (Nat Micro)
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