This Week in Microbiology / Saliva and sptR/S

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This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation. Links for this episode: Genes for the Streptococcus pyogenes fitness in human saliva (mSphere) Swallowed bacteria drive colonic inflammation (Science) Intestinal inflammation induced by oral bacteria (Science) Human oral microbiome (J Bact) T cell subsets (Nat Rev Imm) Image credit

Subtitle: This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation. Links for this episode: Genes for the Streptococcus pyogenes fitness in human saliva (mSphere) Swallowed bacteria...
Duration: 01:06:17
Publishing date: 2017-11-02 15:56
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/twim/~3/q7UovAr1AWU/TWiM163.mp3
Contributors: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson; author
Enclosures: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/twim/~5/1ZlCX1VBk5M/TWiM163.mp3; audio/mpeg

Shownotes

This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation.

Links for this episode:

Genes for the Streptococcus pyogenes fitness in human saliva (mSphere)
Swallowed bacteria drive colonic inflammation (Science)
Intestinal inflammation induced by oral bacteria (Science)
Human oral microbiome (J Bact)
T cell subsets (Nat Rev Imm)
Image credit