This Week in Parasitism

By Vincent Racaniello

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... more

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July 20, 2013TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by the single-celled coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis.
The day after recording this episode, ProMedMail reported that the outbreak of cyclosporiasis had spread to Texas.
Links for this episode:
Cyclosporiasis (CDC)
Cyclospora life cycle (CDC)
Cyclosporiasis (Wikipedia)
Cyclosporiasis outbreak, US (one, two, three) (ProMedMail)
Cyclosporiasis outbreak moves to Texas (ProMedMail)
Notifiable diseases, US, 2011 (CDC)
Federal funding for science research (virology blog)
Oculus of Singapore (YouTube)
Dickson recording TWiP 57 (jpg)
Dickson's stuff (jpg)
People, Parasites, and Plowshares by Dickson Despommier
Letters read on TWiP 57
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1h 17min
July 03, 2013TWiP 56: Whirling disease
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss Myxobolus cerebralis, the parasite that causes whirling disease of salmonids.
Links for this episode:
Myxobolus cerebralis (Wikipedia)
Fish migration (Wikipedia)
Trout with whirling disease (YouTube)
Letters read on TWiP 55
Listener Pick
Amanda - Pandemic: On the Brink
Contact
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1h 34min
June 15, 2013TWiP 55: A ladybird's weapon
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson reveal how invasive harlequin ladybirds use biological weapons against their competitors.
Links for this episode:
Invasive Harlequin Ladybirds' biological weapon (Science)
Immunity an invasive success (Science)
Invading ladybugs carry bioweapons (C&EN)
Ladybird Ladybird (Wikipedia)
G. Evelyn Hutchinson (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 55
Dickson's Pick
An Inordinate Fondess for Beetles by Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy
Listener Pick
Jessie - Pandemic, the board game
Contact
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1h 14min
May 23, 2013TWiP 54: Unde venis?
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson consider a case history of a young man with Blastocystis hominis - is it causing his disease?
Links for this episode:
Blastocystis (Wikipedia)
Blastocystis review (Trends Parasitol)
Letters read on TWiP 54
Contact
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1h 27min
April 20, 2013TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss the finding that immunity to a sandfly salivary protein protects against fatal visceral leishmaniasis in hamsters.
Links for this episode:
Immunity to a salivary protein protects against leishmaniasis (PNAS)
Image of blood-fed Lutzomyia longipalpis (right) credit
Short history of Leishmania vaccines
Leishmania on TWiP #14
Letters read on TWiP 53
Contact
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1h 12min
March 16, 2013TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the giant kidney worm, Dioctophyme renale.
Links for this episode:
Dioctophymiasis (CDC)
Dioctophyme renale (Wikipedia)
Fatal bilateral dioctophymiasis (J Parasitol)
Clinical Parasitology by Paul C. Beaver
D. renale in a dog (Vet. Parasitol.)
Surgical removal of D. renale (YouTube)
Letters read on TWiP 52
Contact
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1h 10min
March 02, 2013TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Guest: Anthony A. James
Special guest Anthony A. James joins Vincent and Dickson to discuss how mosquitoes can be genetically modified to control infectious diseases.
Links for this episode:
Field cage studies of modified mosquitoes (PLoS NTD)
Flightless mosquitoes (PNAS)
When mutant mosquitoes attack (NY Times)
Contact
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1h 12min
February 16, 2013TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.
Links for this episode:
Malaria parasites co-opt factor H (Cell Host Microbe)
Complement system (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 50
Contact
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1h 12min
January 26, 2013TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss innate immune sensing of Toxoplasma gondii in mice, and heme metabolism in protozoan parasites.
Links for this episode:
Sensing Toxoplasma in mice (Cell Host Microbe)
Make it, take it, or leave it (PLoS Path)
Heme (Wikipedia)
Letters read on TWiP 49
Contact
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1h 35min
December 18, 2012TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Josef Sabo
Vincent, Dickson, and Josef discuss tetraspanins on the surface of schistosomes as vaccine candidates and immune evasion proteins.
Links for this episode:
S. japonicum tetraspanin-2 as a vaccine target (PLoS NTP)
Protection with S. mansoni tetraspanin-2 (PLoS NTP)
S. mansoni tetraspanins confer protection (Nat Med)
Tetraspanins
Letters read on TWiP 48
Contact
Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected].
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1h 8min

FAQs about This Week in Parasitism:

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