308: Living in a Community World

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, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

Guest: Mark O. Martin

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Links for this episode

• Matters Microbial
• Distinct Fusobacterium dominates colorectal cancer (Nature)
• Bacterial subspecies that might drive colon cancer (Nature)
• A bacterial strain linked to colon cancer (Nature)
• Spatial perspective on bacteria in tumors (Nature)
• Colorectal cancer in the young (Yale Med)
• Surface colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae promotes its survival (mBio)
• THOR, a model microbiome (mBio)
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