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TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile

  • October 30, 2015
  • Tagged as: amoeba, Anopheles, Balamuthia, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, pyrethrin, pyrethroid, resistance, RNAseq
TWiP

The TWiP-lets reveal Balamuthia infection in the Children from Peru, and discuss resistance to pyrethroids uncovered by RNA sequencing of Anopheles mosquitoes.

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TWiP 97: The seven year itch

  • October 17, 2015
  • Tagged as: alpha-gal, artemisinin, complement, gut microbiota, ivermectin, malaria, natural antibody, Nobel Prize, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, scabies, William Campbell
TWiP

The paratenic hosts reveal a case of scabies in the Traveling Salesman, and discuss a role for natural antibody in protection from infection with Plasmodium.

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TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia

  • October 3, 2015
  • Tagged as: Ankylostoma braziliense, Belize, cutaneous, cutaneous larva migrans, foxp3, IL10, immune response, leishmania, leishmaniasis, parasite, parasitism, saliva, sandfly, Th1, Th2, Treg, vector

The TWiPanosomes solve the case about the Young Woman who Went to Belize, and relate how sandfly saliva skews the immune response and increases risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis.

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TWiP 95: Arsenic and Leishmania

  • September 19, 2015
  • Tagged as: antimonial, arsenic, diarrhea, drug resistance, Entamoeba histolytica, leishmania, parasite, parasitism

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.

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TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit

  • September 5, 2015
  • Tagged as: Brugia malayi, c-abl, eukaryote, filaria, filariasis, Gleevac, imatinib, loa loa, lymphatic filariasis, macrofilaricide, microfilaricide, onchocerciasis, parasite, parasitism, tyrosine kinase, Wuchereria bancrofti

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the man from El Salvador, and discuss the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors to treat onchocerciasis and filariasis.

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TWiP 93: A fishy tale unfolds

  • August 8, 2015
  • Tagged as: anisakis, case study, nematode, parasite, parasitism, podcast, roundworm, twip

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve their fishy tale, and present a new case study for your consumption.

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TWiP 92: Kleptohaemodeipnonism

  • July 4, 2015
  • Tagged as: Ascaris lumbricoides, bottleneck, Chagas disease, guinea pig, parasite, parasitism, Peru, Reduvid bug, triatomine insect, Trypanosoma cruzi, vector
Ascaris adults

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.

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TWiP 91: Born to deform

  • June 20, 2015
  • Tagged as: cAMP, Cialis, deformability, erythrocyte, gametocyte, malaria, parasite, parasitism, phosphodiesterase, Plasmodium falciparum, protein kinase A, sildenafil, transmission, Viagra

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel review how Viagra might be used to block transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study.

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TWiP 90: A carbuncle is a large furuncle

  • May 30, 2015
  • Tagged as: CD44, CD55, erythrocyte, forward genetic screen, invasion, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, siRNA

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss identification of an erythrocyte protein essential for invasion of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study.

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TWiP 89: Day TWiPers

  • May 16, 2015
  • Tagged as: cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis, parasite, parasitism, Taenia solium, tapeworm
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Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel reveal last week’s case study and introduce a new one concerning a patient who traveled to Belize.

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