223: The smell of soil

The TWiMmers explore detection of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces in an ophthalmology examination room, the ability of stressed populations of Yersinia bacteria to survive antimicrobial treatment within host tissues, and how volatile organic chemicals produced by soil microbes attract arthropods which in turn disperse bacterial spores.

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Links for this episode

• SARS-CoV-2 RNA in ophthalmology room (JAMA Ophth)
• Stressed Yersinia survive doxycycline treatment (mBio)
• Volatiles, a soil arthropod, and Streptomyces spore dispersal (Nature)
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