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TWiP 201: Tiny and hairy

  • December 7, 2021
  • Tagged as: animal reservoir, disease eradication, leishmania, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Phlebotomus, ring enhancing lesions, sandfly, toxoplasma, toxoplasmosis

The TWiP team solves the case of the Man with a Cat and Ring Enhancing Lesions, and discuss domestic mammals as reservoirs for Leishmania donovani on the Indian subcontinent.

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TWiP 118: Crispr capers with Toxoplasma

  • October 6, 2016
  • Tagged as: apicomplexan, Cas9, CRISPR, essential gene, gene editing, guinea, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium knowlsei, recurrent fever, toxoplasma
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The TWiPinella solve the case of the Woman from Guinea, and describe the use of CRISPR/Cas9 to identify essential apicomplexan genes.

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TWiP 113: Flying pigs

  • July 23, 2016
  • Tagged as: Eimeria tenella, neurocystercercosis, parasite, parasitism, pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, toxoplasma, toxoplasmosis, transgenic, vaccine
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The TWiP ternion solve the case of the Man from Mexico, and discuss a transgenic toxoplasma vaccine for chickens using Eimeria tenella.

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