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TWiP 180: A spleen palaver

  • February 8, 2020
  • Tagged as: artemisinin, clathrin, endocytosis, hemoglobin, kelch13, malaria, parasite, parasite food vacuole, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, spleen, splenomegaly, Uganda

The TWiP professors solve the case of the Ugandan Child with Splenomegaly, and reveal that mutations in the P. falciparum genome that confer artemisinin resistance interfere with endocytic uptake of hemoglobin.

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TWiP 179: Verminous visitors

  • January 11, 2020
  • Tagged as: Ascaris, hemoglobin, macaque, malaria, malarial anemia, nonhuman primate, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, pathogenesis, roundworm

The TWiP DVD solve the case of the Child Who Passed Worms, and discuss a non-human primate model for severe malarial anemia.

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