Paper of the Week: Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signalling interference

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Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signalling interference

Pipat Piewngam, Yue Zheng, Thuan H. Nguyen, Seth W. Dickey, Hwang-Soo Joo, Amer E. Villaruz, Kyle A. Glose, Emilie L. Fisher, Rachelle L. Hunt, Barry Li, Janice Chiou, Sujiraphong Pharkjaksu, Sunisa Khongthong, Gordon Y. C. Cheung, Pattarachai Kiratisin & Michael Otto

Nature volume 562, pages 532–537 (2018)
Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0616-y

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