TWiM #165: Pumping Copper
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson
- Published
- Thu 30 Nov 2017
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM165.mp3
The TWiM team discusses the use of copper on exercise weights to reduce bacterial burden, and the mechanism of antigenic variation by which a fungus that causes severe pneumonia escapes the immune system.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson
Links for this episode:
- Reducing bacteria on exercise weights with copper (Am J Inf Contr)
- Antigenic variation in Pneumocystis jirovecii (mBio)
- Letters read on TWiM 165
