Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson
The TWiMeriti reveal a Brazilian social bee that must cultivate a fungus to survive, and diet-mediated reduction in gut colonization by Candida albicans.
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Links for this episode
- Bee cultivates fungus to survive (Curr Biol)
- Diet reduces C. albicans gut colonization (mSphere)
- mSphere, a new open-access ASM journal
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 116
This episode is sponsored by ASM Biodefense and the 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium.
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