This Week in Parasitism
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TWiP 65: The real world wide web
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson consider ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson consider the effects of climate change on parasitic diseases. Links for this episode: Climate change and infectious diseases (Science) The more...
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TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy. Links for this episode: Targeting PI(4)K to eliminate malaria (Nature) Antimicrobial peptides to...
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TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss evidence that the malaria parasite originated in gorillas. Links for this episode: Great apes and zoonoses (Science) Source of human...
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TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm. Links for this episode: High diversity of West African bat...
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TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material. Links for this episode: T. rex had Trichomonas (PLoS...
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TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes mice to lose their aversion to cat urine, even after the parasites have been cleared. Links for this...
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TWiP 59: Apicomplexity
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson update ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous...
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TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Guest: Cali Despommier Vincent ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Guest: Cali Despommier Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, and Dickson reads a chapter from his new book. Links for this episode: Dickson and...
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TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by the single-celled coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. The day after recording this...
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TWiP 56: Whirling disease
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss Myxobolus cerebralis, the parasite that causes whirling disease of salmonids. Links for this episode: Myxobolus...
