This Week in Parasitism
Successful systems attract parasites
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TWiP 45: Free range Toxoplasma with John Boothroyd
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss Toxoplasma biology with Stanford University Professor John Boothroyd. Links for this episode: T. gondii and free range animals Kiss and...
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TWiP 44: Parasites provide a cricket subsidy for trout
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson explain ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson explain how a nematode manipulates cricket behavior and alters the food web of a stream. Links for this episode: Nematomorph parasites alter food web of...
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TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts
Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to ...
Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to malaria resistance, and inhibition of innate immune responses by an enzyme from trypanosomes. Links for this episode: microRNAs involved in sickle cell...
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TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson answer ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more. Links for this episode: Metabolic...
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TWiP 41: Flying and crawling beasts
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review medically important arthropods. Links for this episode: Thomas Eisner Incomplete metamorphosis in insects (jpg) Complete metamorphosis in an insect...
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TWiP 40: Doctor, there's a worm in my eye!
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson discuss loaiasis caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa. Right-click to download TWiP #40 (52 MB .mp3, 73 minutes). Links for this...
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TWiP 39: I encyst, said the amoeba
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of the amoebae Naegleria fowlerii and Acanthamoeba castellani. Links for this episode: N. fowlerii life...
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TWiP 38: How to Trichomonas
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson tackle ...
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson tackle the backlog of listener email, then consider the life cycle and pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis, the flagellated protozoan transmitted by sexual...
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TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis
Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of ...
Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Dracunculus medinensis, the filarial nematode that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease. Links for this episode: Dracunculus emerging from foot (jpg) Dracunculus...
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TWiP 36: Trichuris and microbes plan a hatch
Vincent and Dickson review how gut bacteria help establish T. ...
Vincent and Dickson review how gut bacteria help establish T. muris in the large intestine of mice.
