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Tag: filaria

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TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit

  • September 5, 2015
  • Tagged as: Brugia malayi, c-abl, eukaryote, filaria, filariasis, Gleevac, imatinib, loa loa, lymphatic filariasis, macrofilaricide, microfilaricide, onchocerciasis, parasite, parasitism, tyrosine kinase, Wuchereria bancrofti

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the man from El Salvador, and discuss the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors to treat onchocerciasis and filariasis.

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TWiP 86: Worms Loa the immune response to mycobacteria

  • March 27, 2015
  • Tagged as: CD4 cell, filaria, flow cytometry, immune memory, immunity, immunology, loa loa, mycobacterium tuberculosis, parasite, parasitism, worm

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how filarial infection modulates the immune response to mycobacterial infection, and reveal a new case study.

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TWiP 34: Up against the Wolbachia

  • December 13, 2011
  • Tagged as: aedes aegypti, Anopheles, filaria, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, symbiosis, wolbachia

Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria and filariasis with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.

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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

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

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