TWiM #163: Saliva and sptR/S
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson
- Published
- Thu 02 Nov 2017
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM163.mp3
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
