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TWiP 184: The hunter gets captured by the game

  • June 6, 2020
  • Tagged as: Anopheles, COVID-19, cyclospora, endosymbiont, malaria, microsporidian, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, watery diarrhea, wolbachia

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Safari Goer With Watery Diarrhea, and explain how a microsporidian endosymbiont of Anopheles mosquitoes might impair the transmission of malaria.

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TWiP 180: A spleen palaver

  • February 8, 2020
  • Tagged as: artemisinin, clathrin, endocytosis, hemoglobin, kelch13, malaria, parasite, parasite food vacuole, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, spleen, splenomegaly, Uganda

The TWiP professors solve the case of the Ugandan Child with Splenomegaly, and reveal that mutations in the P. falciparum genome that confer artemisinin resistance interfere with endocytic uptake of hemoglobin.

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TWiP 173: Rose colored spots

  • July 13, 2019
  • Tagged as: clinical case, dysentery, Entamoeba histolytica, narnavirus, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, rose spots, Salmonella

The podcastellani hosts solve the case of the Sailor With Dysentery, and reveal the first virus discovered in Plasmodium species.

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TWiP 141: Paratransgenesis

  • October 31, 2017
  • Tagged as: Cordylobia anthropophaga, gene drive, midgut, myiasis, Operation Sea Spray, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, Serratia marcescens, symbiosis, tumbu fly

The TWiP Wataalamu solve the case of the One Year Old From Kenya With Moving  Skin Lesions, and describe how to make mosquitoes refractory to Plasmodium with engineered symbiotic bacteria.

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TWiP 97: The seven year itch

  • October 17, 2015
  • Tagged as: alpha-gal, artemisinin, complement, gut microbiota, ivermectin, malaria, natural antibody, Nobel Prize, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, scabies, William Campbell
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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.

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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 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 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.

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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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