Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss identification of an erythrocyte protein essential for invasion of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study.
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel consider the delivery of anti-trypanosome nanobodies to the tsetse fly via a bacterial symbiont, and present a new case study.
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel present a new case study, and discuss the effect of chronic malaria infection on wild warbler life span and telomere degradation.
TWiP 78: Eau de rodent
- October 29, 2014
- Tagged as: attraction, host, malaria, odors, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, rodent, scents
Vincent and Dickson discuss how malaria parasites induce odors in their rodent hosts that attract mosquitoes.
Vincent and Dickson review a novel malaria vaccine candidate comprising a parasite protein involved in egress from red blood cells.
Vincent and Dickson discuss an increase in the altitude of malaria distribution in warmer years in the highlands of Colombia and Ethiopia.
Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.
Vincent and Dickson discuss evidence that the malaria parasite originated in gorillas.
TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
- October 31, 2013
- Tagged as: bat, Gabon, hookworm, malaria, parasite, parasitism, vaccine
Vincent and Dickson discuss the high diversity of malaria parasites in West African bats, and a vaccine against hookworm.
Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.