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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 194: Eye had a corneal scraping

  • April 24, 2021
  • Tagged as: Acanthamoeba, flavivirus, helminth, IL-4, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, tuft cell, West Nile Virus

TWiP solves the case of the Long Island Man with Unilateral Eye Pain, followed by a discussion of how enteric helminth coinfection enhances host susceptibility to West Nile virus by a tuft cell-IL-4 receptor signaling axis.

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TWiP 151: Indiscriminate bulk feeders

  • May 2, 2018
  • Tagged as: Ascaris, blood, bloodsucking, Falciparum, helminth, hookworm, malaria, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, resource competition, scabies

The Podfessors solve the case of the Itchy Child from Panama, and discuss competition for blood in human malaria-helminth co-infections.

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TWiP 128: It’s over 9000!

  • March 4, 2017
  • Tagged as: case study, collagen, eosinophilia, helminth, nurse cell, parasite, parasitism, Strongyloides stercoralis, Trichinella
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The TWiPerati solve the case of the Man Who Sat in Feces, and discuss a study on how Dickson’s favorite parasite induces the formation of a collagen capsule.

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TWiP 122: If the thunder don’t get you, the lightning will

  • December 6, 2016
  • Tagged as: allbendazole, cytokine, deworming, helminth, hookworm, immune hyporesponsiveness, immunosuppression, leishmania, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, parasite, parasitism, sandfly, soil transmitted helminth
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The TWiPniks docs solve the case of the Female from Peru with Epistaxis, and discuss the effect of community deworming on immunosuppression.

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TWiP 112: A NOD to a tricky helminth

  • June 25, 2016
  • Tagged as: Bacterioides, Clostridium, Crohn's disease, helminth, inflammatory bowel disease, microbiota, Nod2, parasite, parasitism, Trichuris muris, type 2 immunity
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The TWiP trio solve the case of the Woman from Washington Heights, and reveal how helminth infection protects mice deficient in the Crohn’s disease gene NOD2 from intestinal disease by inhibiting colonization with an inflammatory bacterial species.

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TWiP 82: A NOD to helminths

  • February 7, 2015
  • Tagged as: auto-inflammatory, autoimmunity, Fasciola hepatica, helminth, immune suppression, insulitis, NOD mouse, parasite, parasitism, type 1 diabetes

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve last week’s case study, present a new one, and reveal how secreted proteins from a helminth prevent diabetes in mice.

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TWiP 81: Living in a wormy world

  • January 24, 2015
  • Tagged as: African buffalo, bovine tuberculosis, helminth, microbial infection, nematode, parasite, parasitism, worm

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel provide the solution to last week’s case study, present a new one, and discuss how immune suppression by nematodes increases tuberculosis fatality in African buffalo.

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TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out

  • September 2, 2014
  • Tagged as: cytokine, gamma herpesvirus, gamma interferon, H. polygyrus, helminth, IL4, latency, parasite, parasitism, S. mansoni, TH2 response

Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection of mice with helminths induces cytokines that reactivate a latent gamma-herpesvirus.

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TWiP 72: Wormholes

  • May 24, 2014
  • Tagged as: Brugia, helminth, host manipulation, parasite, parasitism, protease, schistosomes, Strongyloides, Trichinella
Dickson and worm

Vincent and Dickson discuss five ways that helminths manipulate host tissues to survive.

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