Episode Details

TWiM reveals environmental integrons, bacterial genetic elements notorious for their role in spreading antibiotic resistance, and how Salmonella invasion is controlled by competition among intestinal chemical signals.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode

• Environmental integrons (Trends Micro)
• Integrons: agents of bacterial evolution (Nat Rev Micro)
• Rethinking microbial infallibility in the metagenomics era (Fems Micro

Music used on TWiM is by Ronald Jenkees.

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