216: It starts with a cough

<p>The TWiM team discuses saliva as more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swab and how <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> sulfolipid-1 activates nociceptive neurons and induces cough.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Preventing the</span> <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/magazine/pandemic-vaccine.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">next pandemic</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(NY Times)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">COVID-19</span> <a href= "https://covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">treatment guidelines</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(NIH)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Saliva sensitive</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for SARS-CoV-2 detection (medRxiv)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A mycobacterial molecule</span> <a href= "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420301707"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">provokes cough</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Cell)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-216-letters/">Letters read</a> on TWiM 216</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://asm.org/books">20% off The Invisible ABCs</a> for TWiM listeners! Use promo code: <strong>ABC20</strong> at checkout.<br /></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by</span> <a href= "http://r