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TWiM #16: ICAAC Live (MWV54)

Episode 54 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on September 17, 2011, features a live recorded video episode of This Week in Microbiology (TWiM), a podcast about life on Earth.

Host Vincent and co-host Michael, along with guests Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease.

Links for this episode:

• Need for new antibacterials (J Antimicr Chem)
• Consumer antibacterial soaps (Clin Inf Dis)
• Endothermy and fungal growth (mBio)
• Bat white-nose syndrome (Microbe)
• Chytrid fungus in amphibians

This episode of MWV and TWiM is sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell, the leading scientific publisher of books, scholarly journals, major reference works and databases. This month they are offering 25%-off all Microbiology and Virology books. To take advantage of this offer go to www.wiley.com/go/microbeworld.

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