The doctors TWiP solve the case of the Woman with White Worms, and explain the role of a secreted growth factor from a carcinogenic parasite in wound healing and angiogenesis.
The TWiP trifecta solves the case of the Woman from Bolivia with Belly Pain, and discuss a method for population modification of malaria mosquitoes using a Cas9-mediated driver gene.
TWiP 99: You get your polar bear from your nana
- December 5, 2015
- Tagged as: AIDS, eukaryote, H. nana, HIV-1, hymenolepis nana, immunosuppression, malignancy, parasite, parasitism, tapeworm, transformation, tumor
The TWiP trifecta solves the case of the Professor Who Went to Brazil, and discuss an amazing case of a tapeworm that turned into a tumor in an AIDS patient.
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.
The paratenic hosts reveal a case of scabies in the Traveling Salesman, and discuss a role for natural antibody in protection from infection with Plasmodium.
TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia
- October 3, 2015
- Tagged as: Ankylostoma braziliense, Belize, cutaneous, cutaneous larva migrans, foxp3, IL10, immune response, leishmania, leishmaniasis, parasite, parasitism, saliva, sandfly, Th1, Th2, Treg, vector
The TWiPanosomes solve the case about the Young Woman who Went to Belize, and relate how sandfly saliva skews the immune response and increases risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve the case about the 33 year old Chinese male with watery diarrhea, and discuss whether arsenic in drinking water might lead to treatment failures for Leishmania infections.
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.
TWiP 93: A fishy tale unfolds
- August 8, 2015
- Tagged as: anisakis, case study, nematode, parasite, parasitism, podcast, roundworm, twip
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel solve their fishy tale, and present a new case study for your consumption.
Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how fluctuation in the price of guinea pig food could help transmission of the agent of Chagas disease, and present a new case study for your consumption.
