Tag: mosquito

Episodes

TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile

October 30, 2015
Tagged as: amoeba, Anopheles, Balamuthia, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, pyrethrin, pyrethroid, resistance, RNAseq

The TWiP-lets reveal Balamuthia infection in the Children from Peru, and discuss resistance to pyrethroids uncovered by RNA sequencing of Anopheles mosquitoes.

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TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria

December 19, 2013
Tagged as: antimicrobial peptides, chemotherapy, glycosaminoglycan, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, PI(4)K, Plasmodium

Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.

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TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut

February 16, 2013
Tagged as: complement, factor H, lysis, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium

Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.

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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 28: Medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz

July 26, 2011
Tagged as: malaria, medical entomology, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, podcast, twip, vector

Vincent and Dickson discuss medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz, Assistant Chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at NIAID.

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