This Week in Parasitism

Episodes

TWiP 29: Neglected tropical diseases with Peter Hotez

August 23, 2011
Tagged as: bottom billion, neglected tropical diseases, parasite, parasitism, peter hotez

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson converse with Peter Hotez about global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical diseases.

Download TWiP #29 (47 MB .mp3, 65 minutes)

Links for this episode:

Peter Hotez (Wikipedia)
Hotez going to Baylor
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
Global Network
Dickson Despommier’s parasitology lectures
Letters read on TWiP 29

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TWiP 28: Medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz

July 26, 2011
Tagged as: malaria, medical entomology, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, podcast, twip, vector

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz, Assistant Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIAID.

Download TWiP #28 (65 MB .mp3, 91 minutes)

Links for this episode:

NIAID Laboratory of Malaria and Vector research
Tunicate
Hildegard of Bingen
TWiP 9: Mala aria
Dickson’s lecture on the malarias (19 MB .mov)
Letters read on TWiP 28

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TWiP 27: Trematodes

June 22, 2011
Tagged as: clonorchis, fasciola, fasciolopsis, fluke, heterophyes, metagonimus, paragonimus, parasite, parasitism, snail, trematode

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of trematodes, or flukes, which have a snail as a reservoir host.

Download TWiP #27 (56 MB .mp3, 77 minutes)

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TWiP 26: The schistosomes

May 26, 2011
Tagged as: cercaria, despommier, life cycle, parasite, parasitism, podcast, racaniello, s haematobium, s japonicum, S. mansoni, schistosome, twip

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson take on the schistosomes, agents of a series of related diseases in humans referred to as schistosomiasis.

Download TWiP #26 (68 MB .mp3, 95 minutes)

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TWiP 25: Wuchereria bancrofti

April 27, 2011
Tagged as: elephantiasis, lymphatic filariasis, parasite, parasitism, Wucheria bancrofti

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review Wuchereria bancrofti, the nematode that causes lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.

Download TWiP #25 (32 MB .mp3, 67 minutes)

Links for this episode:

Adults of Wuchereria bancrofti in lymphatic vessels (jpg)
Microfilaria of W. bancrofti (jpg)
Calcified adults of W. bancrofti in blocked lymphatic vessel (jpg)
Patient with long-term W. bancrofti infection (jpg)
W. bancrofti life cycle (jpg)
Letters read on TWiP 25

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TWiP 24: Onchocerca volvulus, a vector-borne, filarial nematode

March 31, 2011
Tagged as: filaria, ivermectin, nematode, onchocerca volvulus, parasite, parasitism, podcast, river blindness, twip

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Onchocerca volvulus, the vector-borne filarial nematode parasite that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness

Download TWiP #24 (59 MB .mp3, 82 minutes)

Links for this episode:

Cross-section of nodule induced by Onchocerca volvulus (jpg)
Section of skin with O. volvulus microfilariae (jpg)
O. volvulus microfilaria in skin (jpg)
Skin snip with O. volvulus microfilariae (jpg)
O. volvulus life cycle (jpg)
Betsy’s malaria life cycle in mosquito (jpg)
Letters read on TWiP 24

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TWiP 23: Strongyloides sterocoralis, a most unusual parasite

March 3, 2011
Tagged as: parasites, Strongyloides sterocoralis, twip

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the world’s most unusual parasite, Strongyloides stercoralis.

Download TWiP #23 (74 MB .mp3, 103 minutes)

Links for this episode:

Free-living Strongyloides stercoralisadult (jpg)
Small intestine with numerous sections of female S. stercoralis (jpg)
Rhabditiform larva of S. sterocoralis (jpg)
Filariform larva of S. stercoralis in skin (jpg)
S. stercoralisbuccal cavity (jpg)
S. stercoralislife cycle (jpg)
Letters read on TWiP 23

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TWiP 22: Hookworm

February 9, 2011
Tagged as: Anclostoma duodenale, hookworm, Necator americanus, nematode, parasite, parasitism

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss possibly the most socially and politically important nematode of humans, the hookworm Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.