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TWiM reveals that the ice cream manufacturing environment harbors psychrotrophic bacteria, and identification of a deadly bacterial strain causing widespread deaths of newborns in Uganda.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, & Michele Swanson.
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- Pyschrotrophic bacteria in ice cream plants (Appl Environ Micro)
- Creamery pays fine for contaminated ice cream (US DOJ)
- Paenibacillus infection of infants in Uganda (The Lancet)
- Deadly bacterial strain identified (Yale SOM)
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