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TWiP 203: True, true, and unrelated

  • February 23, 2022
  • Tagged as: COVID-19, mosquito bed net, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, scabies

The TWiP team solves the case of the Shopkeeper with Thirst, Rash, and low Blood Oxygen, then review a study on the effect on survival to adulthood in Tanzania of mosquito net use in early childhood.

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TWiP 193: A serpiginous trail

  • March 29, 2021
  • Tagged as: Blastocystys, COVID-19, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, steroid, Strongyloides

Audun returns to help solve the case of the Ecuadorean Gentleman Treated for COVID-19, followed by a discussion of the interaction of Blastocystis with the intestinal microbiota and the immune system, and of course a new clinical case from Daniel.

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TWiP 190: But Doc, what could it be?

  • December 8, 2020
  • Tagged as: abdominal mass, COVID-19, Echinococcus, hydatid cyst, malaria, NGO, pandemic, parasite, parasitism, parasitology

Christina from Glasgow returns to help the TWiPlets solve the case of the Ghanian Woman with Abdominal Mass, followed by discussion of the impact of COVID-19 on malaria morbidity and mortality in Africa.

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TWiP 184: The hunter gets captured by the game

  • June 6, 2020
  • Tagged as: Anopheles, COVID-19, cyclospora, endosymbiont, malaria, microsporidian, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, watery diarrhea, wolbachia

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Safari Goer With Watery Diarrhea, and explain how a microsporidian endosymbiont of Anopheles mosquitoes might impair the transmission of malaria.

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TWiP 182: Super spreaders of science

  • April 11, 2020
  • Tagged as: bed bug, Cimex, COVID-19, genome integration, HIV-1, lentivirus vector, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, SARS-CoV-2, Schistosoma mansoni

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Ugandan Volunteer With Morning Bites and discuss integration of HIV-1 into the Schistosome genome, with a sprinkling of COVID-19 throughout.

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TWiP 181: Daniel’s drive-through

  • March 14, 2020
  • Tagged as: colony collapse, COVID-19, dsRNA, honeybee, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, SARS-CoV-2

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Two Volunteers With Watery Diarrhea, discuss diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in the New York area, and reveal an approach to preventing honeybee colony collapse by imbuing their gut bacteria with the ability to produce antiviral and antiparasite double-stranded RNAs.

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