285: How Plague Got Deadly

<p dir="ltr">TWiM reveals a new type of satellite virus that requires only phage tails for producing infectious virus particles, and that highly virulent plague bacteria differs from its innocuous enteric predecessor by its resistance to lysis by human complement.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href="https://twitter.com/profvrr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href= "http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/immunology/Faculty/schmidt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Schmidt</a>.<br /> <br /> Subscribe to TWiM (free) on <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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a title= "TWiM on Google Podcasts" href= "https://open.spotify.com/show/6IFqZ6DJQ9lo4HcAOI4CeI" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify,</a> <a title= "TWiM on Google Podcasts" href= "https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aW1zaG93Lm1pY3JvYmV3b3JsZC5saWJzeW5wcm8uY29tLw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Podcasts</a>, <a title="TWiM on Android" href= "http://subscribeonandroid.com/twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>, <a title= "Subscribe to TWiM" href= "http://twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">RSS</a>, or by <a title= "Subscribe to TWiM via email" href="http://eepurl.com/Hu-U9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email.</a></p> <p>Become a <a href="http://www.microbe.tv/contribute" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">patron</a> of TWiM.</p> <h2><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Viruses that <a href= "https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00573-X?rss=yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">steal bacteriophage tails</a> (Cell Host Microbe)</li> <li><a href= "https://journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.1128/aem.01244-22" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Y. pestis not susceptible to human