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TWiM reveals that breast milk bioactives are essential for development of the infant microbiome and immunity, and how capsule mutants of Klebsiella pneumoniae can affect bacterial pathogenesis.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson, Petra Levin,

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Links for this episode

• Diet-microbe-host interaction in early life (Science)
• Human Milk: An Ideal Food (Front Ped)
• Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (Ann NY Acad Sci)
• Gut microbiome in early childhood (Nature)
• Probiotics Infloran and Labinic
• Cell envelope defects of Klebsiella pneumoniae (Mol Micro)
• A cautionary tale (Mol Micro)
• Global mortality associated with bacterial pathogens (Lancet)
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