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TWiP 105: Survival of the fattest

  • March 12, 2016
  • Tagged as: arsenic, Artemia, brine shrimp, cestode, eukaryote, flamingo, lipid droplets, parasite, parasitism, toxicity, Trichinella
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The TWiPanosomes solve the case of the Young Man from Anchorage, and discuss how cestode parasites increase the resistance of brine shrimp to arsenic toxicity.

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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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