BacterioFiles 205 - Colon Community Counterattacks Cholera

This episode: Microbes in the human gut seem to prevent/inhibit cholera!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Gut microbes make lots of chemicals; some inhibit pathogens (paper)

Bacteria produce inhibitors of fungal crop pathogens (paper)

Phages could make pathogens less able to infect, in addition to killing them

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