The arrival in the US of plasmid-mediated resistance to colistin antibiotics, a last line of defense against many gram-negative bacilli, and a quorum sensing system in a eukaryote are topics of this episode hosted by Vincent, Michael, and Michele.

Image: Etest used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of an antibiotic for a particular bacterium.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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Links for this episode

• E. coli with mcr-1 on a plasmid in the US (AAC)
• Emergence of plasmid mediated colistin resistance in China (The Lancet)
• Major breach in last line of defense (The Lancet)
• Resistance plasmid families in Enterobacteriaceae (AAC)
• EUCAST MIC breakpoints (ClinCalc)
• Role of ASM in microbial resistance one, two (bLogphase)
• Quorum sensing in fungi (Cell Host Microbe)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 129

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