244: Chewing for chicha

<p>Foodie TWiM reveals that bacteria in human saliva are major components of Ecuadorian indigenous beers, and an unusual E. coli that produces atypical light cream-colored colonies in chromogenic agar.</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> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860339/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Saliva bacteria</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in indigenous beers (Peer J)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/epdf/10.1128/AEM.00743-21"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Unusual behavior</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">E. coli</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">ST59 (Appl Envir Micro)</span></li> <li><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/index.html"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">One Health</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(CDC)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv</span></p>