347: At Wound's Edge
This Week in Microbiology · Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin, Mark O. Martin, Michele Swanson
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Show Notes
TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host microenvironment, and short chain fatty acids produced by commensal microbiota reduces its competitive fitness.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.
Guest: Mark O. Martin
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Links for this episode:
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Niche-specific fitness of S. aureus at the wound edge (Nat Comm)
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Commensal derived short chain fatty acids attenuate S. aureus (mBio)
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Ditch the term pathogen (Nature)
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