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TWiP 225: Wandering worm with Lee Gottesdiener

  • December 20, 2023
  • Tagged as: loa loa, loiasis, Ostertagia ostertagi, parasite, parasitism, parasitology

Lee Gottesdiener joins TWiP to help solve the case of the 46 Year Old Man with Ongoing Upper Extremity Swelling, and review plant‑based production of a protective vaccine antigen against the bovine parasitic nematode Ostertagia ostertagi.

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TWiP 207: Accidental host with Claire Panosian, MD

  • July 1, 2022
  • Tagged as: loa loa, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, rat lungworm, science communication

Claire joins the TWiP team to discuss her training and experience as an infectious disease physician, and her transition to science communication, then we solve the case of the Honduran Male with Seizures.

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TWiP 159: Loa and Loa but not gone

  • September 28, 2018
  • Tagged as: community treatment, ivermectin, loa loa, loiasis, microfilariae, onchocerciasis, parasite, parasitism, parasitology

The TWiP triptych solve the case of the 9/11 Survivor infested with parasites, and discuss the effect of community ivermectin treatment for onchocerciasis on Loa loa infections.

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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 42: The tick keeps on ticking

  • August 10, 2012
  • Tagged as: email, ivermectin, leishmania, liver fluke, loa loa, parasite, parasitism, tapework, tick, toxoplasmosis, twip, vector

Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more.

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TWiP 40: Doctor, there’s a worm in my eye!

  • May 17, 2012
  • Tagged as: filarial, loa loa, microfilaria, nematode, parasite, parasitism, worm

Vincent and Dickson discuss loaiasis caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa.

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