294: You’ll Scream After Ice Cream

This Week in Microbiology

TWiM reveals that the ice cream manufacturing environment harbors psychrotrophic bacteria, and identification of a deadly bacterial strain causing widespread deaths of newborns in Uganda.

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

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Links for this episode

• Pyschrotrophic bacteria in ice cream plants (Appl Environ Micro)
• Creamery pays fine for contaminated ice cream (US DOJ)
• Paenibacillus infection of infants in Uganda (The Lancet)
• Deadly bacterial strain identified (Yale SOM)
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