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TWiP 40: Doctor, there's a worm in my eye!

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This Week in Parasitism

Vincent Racaniello

Description: TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you

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TWiP 40: Doctor, there's a worm in my eye!

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss loaiasis caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa.

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TWiP 39: I encyst, said the amoeba

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review the biology and pathogenesis of the amoebae Naegleria fowlerii and Acanthamoeba castellani.

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N. fowlerii life cycle (CDC)

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TWiP 38: How to Trichomonas

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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.

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TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis

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Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of Dracunculus medinensis, the filarial nematode that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease.

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Dracunculus emerging from foot (jpg)

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TWiP 36: Trichuris and microbes plan a hatch

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Vincent and Dickson review how gut bacteria help establish T. muris in the large intestine of mice...

TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock

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Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria with their Columbia University colleague David Fidock...

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