This Week in Microbiology7 Juni 2016

TWiM #129: Dried and wrinkled, smooth and mucoid

The arrival in the US of plasmid-mediated resistance to colistin antibiotics, a last line of defense against many gram-negative bacilli, and a quorum sensing system in a eukaryote are topics of this episode hosted by Vincent, Michael, and Michele.

Image: Etest used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of an antibiotic for a particular bacterium.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode

E. coli with mcr-1 on a plasmid in the US (AAC)
Emergence of plasmid mediated colistin resistance in China (The Lancet)
Major breach in last line of defense (The Lancet)
Resistance plasmid families in Enterobacteriaceae (AAC)
EUCAST MIC breakpoints (ClinCalc)
Role of ASM in microbial resistance one, two (bLogphase)
Quorum sensing in fungi (Cell Host Microbe)
Image credit
Letters read on TWiM 129

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