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347: At Wound's Edge

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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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