Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of the amoebae Naegleria fowlerii and Acanthamoeba castellani.
Vincent and Dickson tackle the backlog of listener email, then consider the life cycle and pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis, the flagellated protozoan transmitted by sexual contact.
TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis
- February 23, 2012
- Tagged as: dracunculiasis, dracunculus, filarial, guinea, medinensis, nematode, parasite, parasitism, worm
Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Dracunculus medinensis, the filarial nematode that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease.
Vincent and Dickson review how gut bacteria help establish T. muris in the large intestine of mice.
TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock
- January 13, 2012
- Tagged as: artemisinin, chloroquine, drug resistance, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium
Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria with their Columbia University colleague David Fidock.
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.
TWiP 33: Hide and seek
- November 24, 2011
- Tagged as: antigen, Brugia, epitope, molecular mimicry, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, schistosome
Vincent and Dickson review an in silico pipeline for identifying molecular mimicry candidate proteins in the genomes of parasites, and catch up on listener email.
TWiP 32: Evasive trypanosomes and schistosomes
- November 8, 2011
- Tagged as: cruzain, immune evasion, nfkappab, parasite, parasitism, protease, schistosome, tetraspanin, trypanosome
Vincent and Dickson discuss immune evasion by the cruzain protease of T. cruzi, and novel tetraspanin antigens of S. japonicum.
TWiP 31 – A malaria vaccine
- October 21, 2011
- Tagged as: circumsporozoite, malaria, parasite, parasitism, twip, vaccine
Vincent and Dickson discuss the promising results of a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine in African children.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson have a broad-ranging conversation with Charles Knirsch of Pfizer, Inc. about how public-private partnerships can function to control and eliminate infectious diseases. Download TWiP #30 (61 MB .mp3,…
