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TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking
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Length:
75 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more.
Links for this episode:
Metabolic pathways required by Leishmania (Ann Rev Micro)
Tapeworms in people's brains (Carl Zimmer)
Poison Ivy
Bovine tuberculosis disguised by liver fluke (Nature)
Giant kidney worm (YouTube)
Crowd-sourced games for telepathology
Ivermectin for alcohol abuse
Ivermectin and alcohol abuse in mice (Neuropharm)
Etymology of Loa
Worm removed from man's eye (BBC)
Ticks keep on ticking (PLoS One article)
Letters read on TWiP 42
Contact
Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv.
Vincent and Dickson answer listener emails about Leishmania, dual infection of vectors, tapeworms, liver flukes, toxoplasmosis, and much more.
Links for this episode:
Metabolic pathways required by Leishmania (Ann Rev Micro)
Tapeworms in people's brains (Carl Zimmer)
Poison Ivy
Bovine tuberculosis disguised by liver fluke (Nature)
Giant kidney worm (YouTube)
Crowd-sourced games for telepathology
Ivermectin for alcohol abuse
Ivermectin and alcohol abuse in mice (Neuropharm)
Etymology of Loa
Worm removed from man's eye (BBC)
Ticks keep on ticking (PLoS One article)
Letters read on TWiP 42
Contact
Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv.
Released:
Aug 10, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
TWiP #1 - Introduction to parasitism: Vincent and Dick provide an overview of parasites and parasitism by This Week in Parasitism