TWiM #135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends

How critical illness alters the microbiome, and the consequences of a sewage spill into an aquatic environment, from the TWiM team.

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Principal-coordinate (PC) plots of unweighted UniFrac distances of both ICU patient and healthy AGP subject samples: A, fecal, skin, and oral samples with the ICU patient samples enlarged to aid in differentiation

Links for this episode

• Dysbiosis of microbiome in critical illness (mSphere)
• Consequences of sewage spill into aquatic environment (App Env Mic)
• EPA recreational water guidelines (pdf)
• VRE following sewage spill (Outbreak Radio)
• FAQ: Human microbiome
• American gut project
• British gut project
• Rob Knight on human microbiome (TED)
• Rob Knight on TWiM
• Image credit
• TWiM 135 Letters

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