TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host microenvironment, and short chain fatty acids produced by commensal microbiota reduces its competitive fitness.
Hosts: Michael Schmidt, Michele Swanson and Petra Levin.
Guest Mark O. Martin.
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Links for this episode
- Niche-specific fitness of S. aureus at the wound edge (Nat Comm)
- Commensal derived short chain fatty acids attenuate S. aureus (mBio)
- Ditch the term pathogen (Nature)
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