Steph talks about identification of gut bacteria that can digest protective mucosal antibodies and Vincent covers a new paper on Zika virus that implicates fetal phagocytes in brain invasion, which may provide insight into the devastating microcephaly outcome of infection during pregnancy.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cindy Leifer, Steph Langel, and Brianne Barker

Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Gut bacteria induce mucosal immunodeficiency (Science)
• Contribution of fetal mononuclear phagocytes to Zika virus neuroinvasion (Cell)
• TWiV468 discusses Zika and brain slice infection model.
• Time stamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Music by Tatami.
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