258: A Tick’s Meal

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TWiM explains how bacterial symbionts regulate tick blood feeding activity, and the reasons why antibiotics exist.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Symbionts help</span> <a href= "https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(21)00387-5?rss=yes"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">ticks to feed</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Cell Host Microbe)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why do</span> <a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.1128/mBio.01966-21"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> antibiotics exist?</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(mBio)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shorter is</span> <a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29370317/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">still better</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(J Hosp Med)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shorter vs longer</span> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29370318/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">antibiotic courses</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(J Hosp Med)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Francis Tally and tigecycline (Clin Inf Dis)</span></li> </ul>