This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
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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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This episode is brought to you by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Part of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department hosts the 2017 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference to exchange information on the latest and most dynamic developments for countering chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Find out more at http://www.cbdstconference.com
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