TWiM reviews a case of E. faecium bacteremia treated with combination bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy, and how dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance via microbial metabolites.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, and Petra Levin
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Links for this episode:
- Vincent’s interviews at SXSW
- Bacteriophage and antibiotic therapy for E. faecium bacteremia (mBio)
- Dopamine receptor D2 confers colonization resistance (Nature)
- CDC’s Reports of Selected E. coli Outbreak Investigations
- Brett Finlay’s narrated EPEC animation
- Colonization resistance by gut microbial metabolome (ACS Chem Biol)
Music used on TWiM is by Ronald Jenkees.
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