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TWiP 68: Sex and the single trypanosome

  • March 7, 2014
  • Tagged as: gametes, meiosis, parasite, parasitism, podcast, sexual reproduction, Trypanosoma brucei, twip

Vincent, Dickson, and Sagi discuss evidence that the pathogen Trypanosoma brucei undergoes meiosis and sexual reproduction.

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TWiP 67: They find each other delightful

  • February 22, 2014
  • Tagged as: dominant, drug resistance, mutation, oxamniquine, parasite, parasitism, recessive, Schistosoma mansonii

Vincent and Dickson explain the genetic and molecular basis of drug resistance in Schistosoma mansonii.

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TWiP 66: A nitrile warhead for Chagas disease

  • February 8, 2014
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, cruzipain, cysteine protease inhibitor, parasite, parasitism, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi

Vincent and Dickson discuss reversible inhibitors of cruzipain as new drugs for treating Chagas disease.

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TWiP 65: The real world wide web

  • January 13, 2014
  • Tagged as: climate change, disease, food web, parasite, parasitism

Vincent and Dickson consider the effects of climate change on parasitic diseases.

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TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria

  • December 19, 2013
  • Tagged as: antimicrobial peptides, chemotherapy, glycosaminoglycan, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, PI(4)K, Plasmodium

Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.

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TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes

  • November 12, 2013
  • Tagged as: Beatrice Hahn, gorilla, great ape, malaria, parasite, parasitism, podcast, twip, zoonosis

Vincent and Dickson discuss evidence that the malaria parasite originated in gorillas.

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TWiP 62: More bats out of hell

  • October 31, 2013
  • Tagged as: bat, Gabon, hookworm, malaria, parasite, parasitism, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm.

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TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped

  • October 15, 2013
  • Tagged as: archaeological specimen, coprolite, paleoparasitology, parasite, parasitism, T. rex

Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material.

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TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse

  • September 25, 2013
  • Tagged as: aversion, hard wired, mouse, parasite, parasitism, toxoplasma gondii, urine

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.

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TWiP 59: Apicomplexity

  • September 9, 2013
  • Tagged as: apicomplexa, cyclosporiasis, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium lophurae, reticuloendotheliosis virus, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.

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