223: The smell of soil

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TWiMmers explore detection of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces in an ophthalmology examination room, the ability of stressed populations of</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Yersinia</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">bacteria to survive antimicrobial treatment within host tissues, and how volatile organic chemicals produced by soil microbes attract arthropods which in turn disperse bacterial spores.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subscribe to TWiM (free) on</span> <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology/id422332846&ls=1https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology/id422332846?mt=2&ls=1"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple Podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aW1zaG93Lm1pY3JvYmV3b3JsZC5saWJzeW5wcm8uY29tLw%3D%3D"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Android</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href= "http://twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">RSS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or by</span> <a href="http://eepurl.com/Hu-U9"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">email.</span></a></p> <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> <h2><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">SARS-CoV-2 RNA in</span> <a href= "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2769121"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">ophthalmology room</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(JAMA Ophth)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stressed</span> <