315: How Pseudomonas Became A Global Pathogen

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM explores evolution and host adaptation of Pseudomonas infections of plants, and the impact of COVID-19 on ESBL-producing E. coli on urinary tract and blood infections.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt.

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Links for this episode

• Evolution and host adaptation of Pseudomonas (Science)
• Type III secretion system, infection by injection (Nat Comm)
• Demographic inference with skyline plots (Peer J)
• Skyline plots (Taming the Beast)
• Panaroo, a bacterial genome analysis pipeline (Wellcome Sanger Inst)
• Impact of COVID-19 on ESBL-producing E. coli infections (Antimicro Resist Inf Control)
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