This Week in Microbiology
321: The Microbes in Your Food
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TWiM focuses on recent foodborne outbreaks of bacterial infections, and how nanopore sequencing technology can be used to identify pathogenic microbes and antimicrobial resistance genes in food products.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.
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Foodborne outbreaks (CDC)
Race to nourish a warming world (Gates Foundation)
Nanopore sequencing of foods (Food Microbiol)
How is Oxford Nanopore used? (YouTube)
Introduction to Nanopore sequencing (YouTube)
Methods for detecting foodborne pathogens (Appl Micro Biotech)
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