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223: The smell of soil
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2020
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Podcast episode
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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. Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Android, RSS, or by email. Become a patron of TWiM. 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) Image credit Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv
Released:
Aug 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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