Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, William Bishai, John Brownstein, and Victor Nizet.
Vincent and Michael travel to San Francisco for the 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), where they meet with Bill, John, and Victor to discuss tuberculosis, monitoring infectious disease outbreaks with online data, and outside-the-box approaches to antibacterial therapy.
Download TWiM #41 (48 MB .mp3, 103 minutes).
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Links for this episode:
- M. tuberculosis virulence factor (PlosOne)
- HealthMap
- Social and news media in 2012 Haitian cholera outbreak (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
- Flu near you
- Hypoxia-inducing factor and neutriphil extracellular traps (Biochem J)
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