Founder of Floating Doctors Ben LaBrot joins TWiP to solve the case of the 1 year old in northeastern Panama with a fatal leg infection, followed by a discussion of the history and mission of…
Lilach Sheiner joins TWiP to talk about her career and her work on engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Christina Naula…
TWiP 243: Don’t blame it on Mexico
- September 20, 2024
- Tagged as: Enterobous vermicularis, feces, Mary Pritchard, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, pinworm, stool, white worm
TWiP solves the case of the Woman with White Worms, and submits a new case involving a 1 year old in northeastern Panama with a fatal leg infection.
TWiP 242: Worms impair COVID vaccines
- September 6, 2024
- Tagged as: antibody, B cells, Heligmosomoides, helminth, IL10, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, SARS-CoV-2, T cells, Th1, Th2, vaccine response
TWiP reviews a study showing that intestinal helminth infection impairs vaccine-induced T cell responses through an IL-10 pathway, which compromised protection against antigenically drifted SARS-CoV-2 variants.
TWiP 241: There once was a patient from China
- August 19, 2024
- Tagged as: babesia, babesiosis, drenching sweats, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, tick
TWiP solves the case of the man from China with drenching sweats, discusses ‘worms’ found in Olympic food, and presents a new case for you to solve.
TWiP 240: A daily history of malaria with Sean Murphy
- August 2, 2024
- Tagged as: dried blood spot, malaria, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, ribosomal RNA, RT-PCR, Uganda
Sean Murphy joins TWiP to discuss his career and the work of his laboratory to assess the daily natural history of asymptomatic Plasmodium infections in adults and older children in Katakwi, Uganda.
TWiP 239: Cryptosporidiosis from NYC tap water in an AIDS patient
- July 19, 2024
- Tagged as: cryptosporidiosis, cryptosporidium, diarrhea, HIV/AIDS, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, tap water
TWiP solves the case of the AIDS patient who developed fever and watery diarrhea after drinking NYC tap water, and present a new case for your sleuthing.
Michael Barrett joins TWiP to discuss progress in the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
TWiP 237: Pass the venison, deer with Marilyn Fabbri
- June 21, 2024
- Tagged as: boar, deer, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, toxoplasma, Trichinella, venison
Marilyn Fabbri joins TWiP to reveal the case of a patient who became very ill after he and a number of friends attended a large dinner where venison and boar were served.
TWiP solves the case of a man in his 50s reporting months of abdominal discomfort, who takes mebendazole and some time afterwards vomits a worm into the sink.