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TWiP 241: There once was a patient from China

  • August 19, 2024
  • Tagged as: babesia, babesiosis, drenching sweats, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, tick

TWiP solves the case of the man from China with drenching sweats, discusses ‘worms’ found in Olympic food, and presents a new case for you to solve.

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TWiP 220: Denies any bug bites

  • August 20, 2023
  • Tagged as: babesia, malaria, mRNA vaccine, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, T cell, tick, vaccine

TWiP solves the case of the Hiker from Queens who Denies Bug Bites, and reveal two different malaria experimental vaccines that target different parts of the parasite life cycle.

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TWiP 186: Not rationing rationality

  • August 1, 2020
  • Tagged as: Babesia microti, babesiosis, cytokinesis, electron microscopy, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium falciparum, tick, West Nile Virus

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Elder Gardener Feeling Poorly, and discuss the three-dimensional ultrastructure of Plasmodium falciparum during cytokinesis.

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TWiP 176: Blood schmear

  • October 9, 2019
  • Tagged as: AIDS, babesia, babesiosis, blood smear, CD4+ lymphocyte, HIV-1, Maltese cross, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, schistosome, soluble egg antigen, tick

The TWiPpers of the bite fantastic solve the case of the Indian Man Who Hiked, and discuss the effects of schistosome soluble egg antigen on infection of lymphocytes with HIV-1.

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TWiP 157: What a long, strange TWiP it’s been

  • August 29, 2018
  • Tagged as: Babesia microti, Coxiella, endosymbiont, intracellular ring form, larva, nymph, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Q fever, Rickettsia, tick, transstadial

The TWiP professors solve the case of the Woman With Intracellular Ring Forms, and explore the role of Coxiella and Rickettsia endosymbionts in acquisition of Babesia by ticks.

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TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking

  • August 10, 2012
  • Tagged as: email, ivermectin, leishmania, liver fluke, loa loa, parasite, parasitism, tapework, tick, toxoplasmosis, twip, vector

Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more.

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