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TWiM #25: Magnetotactic bacteria and totally drug resistant TB

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.

On episode #25 of the podcast, Vincent, Elio, and Michael review bacteria that use the earth’s magnetic field for navigation, and identification of totally drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Right click to download TWiM #25 (53 MB, .mp3, 77 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Magnetotactic bacteria (FEMS Micro Rev)
• How bacteria break a magnet (Nature)
• Magnetosome chains split by asymmetric septation (Mol Micro)
• Totally drug resistant TB in India (Clin Inf Dis)
• Totally drug resistant TB in Iran (Chest)
• Fitness cost of drug resistance in TB (PNAS)
• India reports totally drug resistant TB (Wired)
• Letters read on TWiM #25

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