This Week in Parasitism
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TWiP 95: Arsenic and Leishmania
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the 33 ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the 33 year old Chinese male with watery diarrhea, and discuss whether arsenic in drinking water might lead to treatment failures for Leishmania infections. Hosts: Vincent...
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TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the man ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the man from El Salvador, discuss the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors to treat onchocerciasis and filariasis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for...
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TWiP 93: A fishy tale unfolds
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve their fishy tale, and present ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve their fishy tale, and present a new case study for your consumption. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for this episode: Freezing and the quality of...
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TWiP 92: Kleptohaemodeipnonism
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how fluctuation in the price ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how fluctuation in the price of guinea pig food could help transmission of the agent of Chagas disease, and present a new case study for your consumption. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,...
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TWiP 91: Born to deform
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel review how Viagra might be used ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel review how Viagra might be used to block transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for this...
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TWiP 90: A carbuncle is a large furuncle
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss identification of an erythrocyte protein ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss identification of an erythrocyte protein essential for invasion of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for...
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TWiP 89: Day TWiPers
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel reveal last week's case study and ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel reveal last week's case study and introduce a new one concerning a patient who traveled to Belize. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for this episode: Neurocysticercosis...
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TWiP 88: French foreign lesion
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how a secreted protein from ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how a secreted protein from the protozoan parasite Theileria transforms its host cells via a cellular proto-oncogene. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links...
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TWiP 87: Stumped by pinworm
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel review new insight into antigenic variation ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel review new insight into antigenic variation in trypanosomes, reveal the difficult solution to the last case study, and present another mystery for your solving. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and...
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TWiP 86: Worms Loa the immune response to mycobacteria
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how filarial infection modulates the ...
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how filarial infection modulates the immune response to mycobacterial infection, and reveal a new case study. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for this...
