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TWiM 64: URI and UTI at ICAAC

20 September 2013 by Vincent Racaniello

This episode of TWiM was recorded at the 53rd ICAAC in Denver, Colorado, where Michael Schmidt and I spoke with James Gern about rhinoviruses, and James Johnson about extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli.

You can find TWiM #64 at microbeworld.org, or view the video below.

Filed Under: Basic virology, Information, This Week in Microbiology Tagged With: allergen, antibiotic, asthma exacerbation, common cold, escherichia coli, ExPec, extraintestinal pathogenic, fluoroquinoline resistance, pyelonephritis, respiratory tract, rhinovirus, ST131, urinary tract infection

TWiM 16: ICAAC Live

22 September 2011 by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Microbiology

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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Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiM 16 (65 MB, .mp3, 90 minutes).

Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes, Zune Marketplace, via RSS feed, by email or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.

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

Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@microbe.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twim.

Filed Under: This Week in Microbiology Tagged With: antibacterial, antibiotic, carbapenem, fungi, microbe, microbiology, ndm-1, resistance, triclosan

TWiM 6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction?

6 May 2011 by Vincent Racaniello

bacteriophage modelHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaecter

On episode #6 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Elio review the use of bacteriophages to manage infections, and the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophages from urban sewage and river water.

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Click the arrow above to play, or right click to download TWiM #6 (57 MB .mp3, 82 minutes).

Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes,  Zune Marketplace, via RSS feed, by email or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app.

Links for this episode:

  • Potential bacteriophage applications (Microbe)
  • Revived interest in bacteriophages (Current Biology)
  • Pulmonary bacteriophage therapy for Pseudomonas infections (PLoS One)
  • Bacteriophage therapy for chronic otitis (Clin Otolaryngology)
  • Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans bacteriophage capable of lysing biofilm (AEM)
  • Clinical trials using bacteriophage
  • Antibiotic resistance genes in environmental bacteriophages (PLoS One)
  • Letters read on TWiM #6

The model of bacteriophage T4 shown in the photo is described here.

Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@microbe.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can also post articles that you would like us to discuss at microbeworld.org and tag them with twim.

Filed Under: This Week in Microbiology Tagged With: antibiotic, bacteriophage, genes, infections, manage, microbiology, presence, resistance, river, sewage, water

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