Episode 163
TWiM #163: Saliva and sptR/S
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson
November 2, 20171h 6m
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Show Notes
This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation.
Links for this episode:
- Genes for the Streptococcus pyogenes fitness in human saliva (mSphere)
- Swallowed bacteria drive colonic inflammation (Science)
- Intestinal inflammation induced by oral bacteria (Science)
- Human oral microbiome (J Bact)
- T cell subsets (Nat Rev Imm)
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