This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation. Links for this episode: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Genes for the Streptococcus pyogenes fitness in human saliva (mSphere)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29051379">Swallowed bacteria</a> drive colonic inflammation (Science)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6361/308">Intestinal inflammation</a> induced by oral bacteria (Science)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Human <a href= "http://jb.asm.org/content/192/19/5002.abstract">oral microbiome</a> (J Bact)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.nature.com/nri/posters/tcellsubsets/nri1009_tcellsubsets_poster.pdf"> T cell subsets</a> (Nat Rev Imm)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/13743456084">Image credit</a></li> </ul>

TWiM #164: Indiana Quorum

This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.