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Tag: Ascaris lumbricoides

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TWiP 215: A mobile piece of spaghetti

  • March 30, 2023
  • Tagged as: Ascaris lumbricoides, gallbladder, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, schistosomiasis, sex attractant, tsetse fly

TWiP solves the case of the case of the boy in Uganda with a mobile piece of spaghetti in the gallbladder, and reviews papers on female genital schistosomiasis in rural Madagascar, and a volatile sex attractant of tsetse flies.

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TWiP 169: What goes on in the snail

  • April 10, 2019
  • Tagged as: Ascaris lumbricoides, hybrids, intestinal worm, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, recombination, Schistosoma bovis, Schistosoma haematobium

The TriTWiPomonads solve the case of the Child Who Passed a Worm, and reveal recombination between bovine and human schistosome species.

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TWiP 92: Kleptohaemodeipnonism

  • July 4, 2015
  • Tagged as: Ascaris lumbricoides, bottleneck, Chagas disease, guinea pig, parasite, parasitism, Peru, Reduvid bug, triatomine insect, Trypanosoma cruzi, vector
Ascaris adults

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how fluctuation in the price of guinea pig food could help transmission of the agent of Chagas disease, and present a new case study for your consumption.

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TWiP 21 – The giant intestinal worm, Ascaris lumbricoides

  • January 18, 2011
  • Tagged as: Ascaris lumbricoides, nematode, parasite, parasitism
Ascaris adults

Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of Ascaris lumbricoides, one of the largest nematodes to infect humans.

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