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TWiP 210: Is there a doctor on board? with Aisha Khatib

  • November 3, 2022
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, childbirth, helminth, parasite, parasitism, parasitology

From ASTMH2022 in Seattle, Aisha joins the TWiP team to talk about her training and her career, including delivering a baby on an airplane, and they solve the Case of the Heartsick Guatemalan Septuagenarian. Hosts: Vincent…

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TWiP 187: Granny’s granuloma

  • August 29, 2020
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, granuloma, heme oxygenase, leishmaniasis, malaria, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Toxocara

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Middle Aged Woman with Loss of Vision in One Eye, and discuss the role of heme oxygenase in the various protozoan infections.

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TWiP 170: A worm’s eye view

  • May 8, 2019
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, collection-11, complement protein, MASP2, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, retinal granuloma, Toxocara canis, Toxocara cati, Trypanosoma cruzi

The TWiPlicates solve the case of the Child With Retinal Granuloma, and discuss an association of the complement protein collectin-11 with the pathophysiology of Chagas disease.

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TWiP 166: From remote locations

  • February 16, 2019
  • Tagged as: B1 cells, Chagas disease, elephantiasis, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Trypanosoma cruzi, Wuchereria bancrofti

The Podfessors solve the case of the Teenager With Swollen Scrotum, and continue the story arc of Daniel’s favorite cells, B-1 cells, and their association with protective immune responses in human Chagas disease.

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TWiP 162: That swollen parcel of dropsies

  • November 21, 2018
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, Dientamoeba fragilis, gastrointestinal illness, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Trypanosoma cruzi, trypanosome

The TWiP professors solve the case of the Baby With Pericardial Effusion, and discuss whether the flagellate without a flagella, Dientamoeba fragilis, causes human illness.

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TWiP 161: All I need is a bit of skin

  • November 10, 2018
  • Tagged as: antigenic variation, Chagas disease, chromatin, chromosome conformation capture, Hi-C, histone, nucleosome, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Trypanosoma cruzi, trypanosome, variant surface glycoprotein

The TWiPsters solve the case of the Brazilian Immigrant With Heart Problems, and describe how genome organization controls trypanosome antigenic variation.

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TWiP 156: The parasitic devil is in the details

  • August 8, 2018
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, chronic diarrhea, Cystoisospora belli, immunodeficiency, oral transmission, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, T. cruzi, triatomine bug vector, whole body imaging

The TWiP crew solves the case of the Ecuadorian with Immunodeficiency and Chronic Diarrhea, and discuss oral transmission of Chagas disease in mice.

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TWiP 121: A parasite without borders

  • November 16, 2016
  • Tagged as: autochthonous, Chagas disease, cryptosporidium, dilated non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, kissing bug, parasite, parasitism, reduviid, triatomine, Trypanosoma cruzi, trypanosome
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The TWiPanosome docs solve the case of the Mali Man with Profuse Diarrhea, and review the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in vectors, canids, and humans along the Texas-Mexico border.

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TWiP 116: One drug to rule them all

  • September 10, 2016
  • Tagged as: Chagas disease, inhibitor, kinetoplastid, leishmania, parasite, parasitism, proteasome, sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi
TWiP

The TWiPtoids solve the case of the Thai Fisherman with Chronic Diarrhea, and reveal a potential new drug for treatment of leishmaniasis, Chagas diseases, and sleeping sickness.

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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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