Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
Vincent, Michael, and Michele discuss how iron might disperse bacterial biofilms in carotid arterial plaques, and controlling Salmonella by modulating host iron homeostasis.
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Links for this episode:
- Biofilm bacteria in carotid arterial plaques
- Oral bacteria in carotid plaques (Eur J Clin Invest)
- Controlling Salmonella by modulating host iron homeostasis (Nat Med)
- Mesenteric lymph nodes (Wikipedia)
- TWiV 282: Tamiflu and tenure too
- Cold Iron by Rudyard Kipling
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 81
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