The TWiM team ventures into preprint space with an analysis of type VI secretion across human gut microbiomes, and provide insight into urinary tract infection: how bladder exposure to a member of the vaginal microbiota triggers E. coli egress from latent reservoirs.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt and Michele Swanson
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Links for this episode
- ASM Microbe 2017
- TWiM Live from ASM Microbe 2017
- Landscape of type VI secretion (BioRxiv)
- Type VI secretion structure (jpg)
- Activation of dormant E. coli in urinary tract infection (PLoS Path)
- Image credit
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