TWiM 16: ICAAC Live

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Arturo Casadevall, Stuart Levy, and David Livermore.

Vincent, Michael, Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease, at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

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Links for this episode:

• Need for new antibacterials (J Antimicr Chem)
• Consumer antibacterial soaps (Clin Inf Dis)
• Endothermy and fungal growth (mBio)
• Bat white-nose syndrome (Microbe)
• Chytrid fungus in amphibians

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