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TWiP 257: Malaya and Malaysia

  • April 19, 2025
  • Tagged as: Brugia malayi, doxycycline, filariasis, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, wolbachia, Wuchereria bancrofti

TWiP solves the case of the man in the Malaysian city of Kucheng who presents with left arm swelling, and presents a new case for you to decipher. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula…

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TWiP 232: Lives of Wolbachia

  • April 5, 2024
  • Tagged as: mutualism, nematode, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, wolbachia

TWiP reviews the cellular lives of Wolbachia, a gram-negative bacteria that infects many arthropods and filarial nematodes with very different outcomes – parasitism or mutualism.

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TWiP 200: Parasites without borders

  • November 4, 2021
  • Tagged as: accidental introduction, gene flow, island ecology, parasite, parasitism, parasitoid wasp, parasitology, spatiotemporal genetic structure, symbiont, trophic chain, wolbachia

The TWiP team solves the case of the Gentleman from New York with Intestinal Issues, and review a 20 year study of butterflies, their associated parasitoid wasp and Wolbachia introduced into an island community.

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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 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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