TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?

This Week in MicrobiologyHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael SchmidtStanley Maloy and Elio Schaechter.

On episode #18 of the podcast This Week in MicrobiologyVincent, Michael, Elio, and Stanley explain how to make the human intestinal commensal and benign laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 into an invasive organism, and the unearthing of century-old spores in New York City.

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