TWiM 216: It starts with a cough

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The TWiM team dis­cuses saliva as more sen­si­tive for SARS-CoV‑2 de­tec­tion in COVID-19 pa­tients than na­sopha­ryn­geal swab and how My­cobac­terium tu­ber­cu­lo­sis sulfolipid‑1 ac­ti­vates no­ci­cep­tive neu­rons and in­duces cough.

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

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Links for this episode

• Pre­vent­ing the next pan­demic (NY Times)
• COVID-19 treat­ment guide­lines (NIH)
• Saliva sen­si­tive for SARS-CoV‑2 de­tec­tion (medRxiv)
• A my­cobac­te­r­ial mol­e­cule pro­vokes cough (Cell)
• TWiM Lis­tener sur­vey

 

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