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TWiP 79: Across the river and into the trees

  • November 22, 2014
  • Tagged as: bacteria, infection, leishmania, Malaysia, microbiome, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium knowlesi, sandfly

Vincent and Dickson discuss the spread of P. knowlesi in Malaysia, and how Leishmania parasites protect the sandfly gut from bacterial infection.

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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.

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TWiP 77: Mixed messages

  • September 19, 2014
  • Tagged as: Arabidopsis, Cuscuta, dodder, fungus, haustoria, parasite, parasitism, plant, tomato

Vincent and Dickson discuss the exchange of messenger RNAs between a parasitic plant and its hosts.

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TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out

  • September 2, 2014
  • Tagged as: cytokine, gamma herpesvirus, gamma interferon, H. polygyrus, helminth, IL4, latency, parasite, parasitism, S. mansoni, TH2 response

Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection of mice with helminths induces cytokines that reactivate a latent gamma-herpesvirus.

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TWiP 75: Parasite wonders with Bobbi Pritt

  • July 21, 2014
  • Tagged as: Bobbi Pritt, clinical diagnostic parasitology, laboratory, parasite, parasitism

Bobbi Pritt joins Vincent and Dickson to talk about directing a clinical parasitology laboratory and her weekly case reports at Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites.

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TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question?

  • July 4, 2014
  • Tagged as: antigen, egress, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cell, schizont, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson review a novel malaria vaccine candidate comprising a parasite protein involved in egress from red blood cells.

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TWiP 73: I’m nibbling my way back to you

  • June 12, 2014
  • Tagged as: dysentery, Entamoeba histolytica, parasite, parasitism, trogocytosis

Vincent and Dickson discuss how nibbling of human cells by Entamoeba histolytica, a process called amoebic trogocytosis, contributes to cell killing and tissue invasion.

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TWiP 72: Wormholes

  • May 24, 2014
  • Tagged as: Brugia, helminth, host manipulation, parasite, parasitism, protease, schistosomes, Strongyloides, Trichinella
Dickson and worm

Vincent and Dickson discuss five ways that helminths manipulate host tissues to survive.

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TWiP 71: Happy trails to you

  • May 10, 2014
  • Tagged as: candiru, chemoattractant, parasite, parasitism, Strongyloides stercoralis, urocanic acid

Vincent and Dickson review the finding that urocanic acid in the skin is a chemoattractant for the parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis.

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TWiP 70: Invasion of the swamp eels

  • April 12, 2014
  • Tagged as: Asian swamp eel, Gnathostoma, gnathostomiasis, invasive species, nematode, parasite, parasitism, worm

Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding of Gnathostoma nematodes in Asian swamp eels from US live markets and wild populations.

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