This Week in Parasitism

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TWiP 70: Invasion of the swamp eels

April 12, 2014
Tagged as: Asian swamp eel, Gnathostoma, gnathostomiasis, invasive species, nematode, parasite, parasitism, worm

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding of Gnathostoma nematodes in Asian swamp eels from US live markets and wild populations.

Download TWiP #70 ( MB .mp3, minutes).

Links for this episode:

Guinea worm eradication at risk (Science)
Gnathostomiasis (CDC)
Asian swamp eel
Gnathostoma in live swamp eels (EID)
Interview with Rebecca Cole (YouTube)
Letters read on TWiP 70

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TWiP 69: Malaria rising

March 29, 2014
Tagged as: climate change, global warming, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, spatiotemporal

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss an increase in the altitude of malaria distribution in warmer years in the highlands of Colombia and Ethiopia.

Download TWiP #69 (53 MB .mp3, 74 minutes).

Links for this episode:

Altitudinal changes in malaria incidence (Science)
El Niño (Wikipedia)
NOAA El Niño page
Image credit: Science
Letters read on TWiP 69

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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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Dickson Despommier, and Sagi Shapira

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

Download TWiP #68 (60 MB .mp3, 83 minutes).

Links for this episode:

Meiosis and haploid gametes in T. brucei (Curr Biol)
Meiosis (Wikipedia)
Image credit: Current Biology
Letters read on TWiP 68

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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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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

Download TWiP #67 (55 MB .mp3, 76 minutes).

Links for this episode:

Basis of resistance to oxamniquine (Science)
Oxamniquine (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 67

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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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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

Download TWiP #66 (74 MB .mp3, 103 minutes).

Links for this episode:

Reversible cysteine protease inhibitors for Chagas (AAC)
New drug candidates for Chagas (ScienceDaily)
Pancake ice (YouTube)
Letters read on TWiP 66

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TWiP 65: The real world wide web

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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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

Download TWiP #65 (60 MB .mp3, 83 minutes).

Links for this episode:

Climate change and infectious diseases (Science)
The more parasites the better? (Science)
Host and parasite control disease risk (PNAS)
Parasites dominate food web links (PNAS)
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Image credit: PLoS One
Letters read on TWiP 65

Dickson’s Pick

Neglected by Shelly Xie (YouTube)

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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

journal.ppat.1003757.s003 Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.

Download TWiP #64 (70 MB .mp3, 97 minutes).

Links for this episode:

Targeting PI(4)K to eliminate malaria (Nature)
Antimicrobial peptides to target sporogonic stages of malaria (PLoS Path)
Small molecule blocks malaria invasion of mosquito (PLoS Path)
Photo credit
Letters read on TWiP 64

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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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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

Download TWiP #63 (70 MB .mp3, 97 minutes).

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TWiP 62: More bats out of hell

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

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.

Download TWiP #62 (70 MB .mp3, 96 minutes).

Links for this episode:

High diversity of West African bat malaria parasites (PNAS)
Human hookworm vaccine (Vaccine)
Gongylonema infection in human (Am J Trop Med Hyg)
Letters read on TWiP 62

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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

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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

Download TWiP #61 (54 MB .mp3, 75 minutes).

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