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This week Phagecast published a new episode featuring an interview with Martin Loessner! You can hear very valuable insights in what is important to have a successful scientific career together with some phage science: how L-forms become re

In a new Nature Microbiology paper, Jan Wohlfarth (ETH Zurich) and colleagues show that Listeria and Enterococcus can evade phage predation by transient conversion to a cell wall-deficient L-form state, which is triggered by endolysins disi

Preprint: Gram-positive bacteria evade phage predation through endolysin-mediated L-form conversion. Read author Martin Loessner’s Twitter thread on this report!

Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues published a preprint on L-form switching in pathogenic Escherichia coli. They demonstrated that the osmotically fragile L-form is highly tolerant of oxidat