This Week in Parasitism
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 can prevent infections.Podcasts
TWiP 226: Successful systems attract parasites
Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 9:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 18 seconds
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TWiP 225: Wandering worm with Lee Gottesdiener
Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 53 seconds
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TWiP 224: Neglected tropical diseases roadmap with Chuck Knirsch
Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 5:15 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 54 seconds
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TWiP 223: Voluminous diarrhea
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 47 seconds
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TWiP 222: Balamuthia in the brain with Natasha Spottiswoode
Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 12:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 221: Delusional parasitosis
Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 10:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 220: Denies any bug bites
Published: Aug. 20, 2023, 11:19 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 41 seconds
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TWIP 219: Sick as a dog
Published: July 24, 2023, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 53 seconds
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TWiP 218: Malaria parasite evades mosquito
Published: June 29, 2023, 11:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 59 seconds
Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to\\xa0twip@microbe.tv
Music by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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TWiP 217: ChatGPT solves the case
Published: June 5, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 216: A challenging case
Published: May 1, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 15 seconds
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TWiP 215: A mobile piece of spaghetti
Published: March 30, 2023, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 214: Tropical medicine excursions with Kay Schaefer
Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 14 seconds
Kay Schaefer joins TWiP to solve the case of the German Male with Hematuria, and discusses Tropical Medicine Excursions, which provides patient-oriented training courses for healthcare professionals who wish to improve their clinical skills in tropical medicine and travelers\\u2019 health in the endemic regions of Uganda, Tanzania and Ghana.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier,\\xa0Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula
Guest: Kay Schaefer
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Links for this episode
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- TROPMEDEX
- Letters read on TWiP 214
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Case Study for TWiP 214
Still in Uganda but now in a clinic in Entebbe. A boy, less than age 10, who grows up in very limited conditions, dirt floor home with other siblings presents with recurrent right upper abdominal pain, fevers, and first undergoes blood work that shows eosinophilia. He has an abdominal ultrasound performed which shows what looks like a mobile piece of spaghetti in the gallbladder with dilated ducts. He also has a stool examination performed.
Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to\\xa0twip@microbe.tv
Music by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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TWiP 213: One deadly snail with Jessie Stone, MD
Published: Feb. 4, 2023, 4:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 3 seconds
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TWiP 212: The Man from Mali with Shauna Gunaratne
Published: Dec. 26, 2022, 8:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 211: Monoclonal against malaria in Mali
Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 7:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 210: Is there a doctor on board? with Aisha Khatib
Published: Nov. 3, 2022, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 209: A worm in paradise
Published: Sept. 27, 2022, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 208: A red herring
Published: Aug. 18, 2022, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 15 seconds
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TWiP 207: Accidental host with Claire Panosian, MD
Published: July 1, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 15 seconds
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TWiP 206: Bacteria protect mosquitoes from parasites
Published: May 30, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 205: Two for the price of one
Published: May 3, 2022, 11:43 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 204: Near a fast-flowing river
Published: March 28, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 203: True, true, and unrelated
Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 26 seconds
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TWiP 202: 80 microns and ovoid
Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 3:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 201: Tiny and hairy
Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 3:01 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 38 seconds
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TWiP 200: Parasites without borders
Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 2:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 199: Chagas kisses Cruzi and Brucei bites
Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 10:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 40 seconds
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TWiP 198: Cyclospora in the dining room with the salad bar
Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP 197: An adventurous eater
Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 5:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP 196: Naked eye entomologist
Published: July 12, 2021, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds
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TWiP 195: Shocking diseases in attractive NY accents
Published: May 31, 2021, 11:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes
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TWiP 194: Eye had a corneal scraping
Published: April 24, 2021, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 2 seconds
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TWiP 193: A serpiginous trail
Published: March 29, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 3 seconds
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TWiP 192: Towel off vigorously
Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 20 seconds
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TWiP 191: Dickson's ocular anomaly
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 190: But Doc, what could it be?
Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 8 seconds
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TWiP 189: Toe jammin'
Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 3:53 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 188: Terrible tropisms
Published: Sept. 26, 2020, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP 187: Granny's granuloma
Published: Aug. 29, 2020, 2:17 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 186: Not rationing rationality
Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 1:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 185: Latrinalia
Published: July 3, 2020, 3 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 184: The hunter gets captured by the game
Published: June 6, 2020, 1:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 183: When they dry they die
Published: May 8, 2020, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 43 seconds
Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Female with Itchy Anus, and reveal the structure of a roundworm membrane protein involved in digestion of nutrients.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and\\xa0Daniel Griffin
Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts,\\xa0RSS,\\xa0email
Links for this episode
- Structure of roundworm digestive complex (PLoS Path)
- Hero: Dr. Anthony Fauci
- Fauci Pharmacy (TWiV 219)
- Letters read on TWiP 183
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Case Study for TWiP 183
70 yo male. Returns with wife from safari in S. Africa. Reports suffering from 2 weeks watery diarrhea. Severe water shortage in S. Africa, limited washing water, hand sanitizers to clean hands so problem with hand hygiene.\\xa0 5 days after arrival he and wife have water diarrhea, 12 per day, nauseated, abdominal cramping. Ab no effect. Stool culture, ONP, negative. Healthy, no past med/surg, no allergies, nothing runs in family. Stool sent off for ONP acid fast stain, also GI PCR panel. Prompts treatment for 7 days trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole, resolves.
Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to\\xa0twip@microbe.tv
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TWiP 182: Super spreaders of science
Published: April 11, 2020, 4:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 53 seconds
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TWiP 181: Daniel's drive-through
Published: March 14, 2020, 3:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 33 seconds
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TWiP 180: A spleen palaver
Published: Feb. 8, 2020, 6:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 179: Verminous visitors
Published: Jan. 11, 2020, 4:43 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 178: The shadowlands of medicine
Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 5:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 59 seconds
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TWiP 177: A scabrous education
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 6:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 176: Blood schmear
Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 175: None alone pathognomonic
Published: Sept. 4, 2019, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 174: Fat cat
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 11:12 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 35 seconds
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TWiP 173: Rose colored spots
Published: July 13, 2019, 1:43 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 172: A painless lesion
Published: June 14, 2019, 5:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds
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TWiP 171: Better than a sharp stick in the eye
Published: May 23, 2019, 10:55 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 170: A worm's eye view
Published: May 8, 2019, 3:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 169: What goes on in the snail
Published: April 11, 2019, 1:27 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 168: Kleptoparasitism and the stercoraceous souvenir
Published: March 27, 2019, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 167: The constipated mathematician
Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 7:19 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 166: From remote locations
Published: Feb. 16, 2019, 6:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 165: The sound of crackles
Published: Jan. 26, 2019, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 53 seconds
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TWiP 164: Surf n' perf
Published: Jan. 12, 2019, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 15 seconds
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TWiP 163: Trout and parasites
Published: Dec. 29, 2018, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 162: That swollen parcel of dropsies
Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 24 seconds
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TWiP 161: All I need is a bit of skin
Published: Nov. 10, 2018, 4:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 160: Toddy tappers
Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 23 seconds
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TWiP 159: Loa and Loa but not gone
Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 7:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 21 seconds
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TWiP 158: Ant-appetising slime balls
Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 11 seconds
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TWiP 157: What a long, strange TWiP it's been
Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 1:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 156: The parasitic devil is in the details
Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 155: Miss Dickson
Published: July 24, 2018, 2:55 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP 154: A louse-y episode
Published: June 27, 2018, 1:33 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP 153: Ars longa, vita brevis
Published: June 13, 2018, 1:54 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 152: A range of rads
Published: May 26, 2018, 6:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 151: Indiscriminate bulk feeders
Published: May 2, 2018, 3:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 150: Fast food
Published: April 19, 2018, 3:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 149: Stranger in a strange land
Published: March 22, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 29 seconds
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TWiP 148: Weep and sweep
Published: March 7, 2018, 9:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 147: The savvy physician tests the tissue
Published: Feb. 24, 2018, 8:39 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 146: Thus misspake Despommier
Published: Jan. 31, 2018, 4:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 45 seconds
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TWiP 145: Is it excreted or secreted?
Published: Jan. 17, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 144: A blood-free snip
Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 143: There's a lot of worms out there
Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 5:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 142: Just a virus, go home
Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 5:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 141: Paratransgenesis
Published: Oct. 31, 2017, 12:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 27 seconds
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TWiP 140: Blasting Blastocystis
Published: Oct. 17, 2017, 8:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP 139: Eggsactly, ova and ova
Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 35 seconds
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TWiP 138: Telmophages and the skin parasite landscape
Published: Sept. 6, 2017, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP 137: An aberrant encounter
Published: Aug. 12, 2017, 4:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP 136: Daniel throws a softball
Published: July 11, 2017, 9:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP 135: Embryonated eggs of wisdom
Published: June 21, 2017, 2:08 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 33 seconds
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TWiP 134: Does toxoplasma make you sexy?
Published: May 24, 2017, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 133: Tape test
Published: May 13, 2017, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 11 seconds
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TWiP 132: Salted crab som tum
Published: April 29, 2017, 4:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 131: Entomophagy
Published: April 15, 2017, 1:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 130: Paige Turner
Published: April 1, 2017, 6:04 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 59 seconds
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TWiP 129: Human kindness, river blindness
Published: March 15, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 128: It's over 9000!
Published: March 4, 2017, 3:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 9 seconds
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TWiP 127: Kava not Cava
Published: Feb. 15, 2017, 12:47 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 126: A virus walks into a parasite
Published: Feb. 4, 2017, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 125: Third time's a charm
Published: Jan. 21, 2017, 7:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 124: RPAing with the tryps
Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 1:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 27 seconds
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TWiP 123: What we know is confusing
Published: Dec. 20, 2016, 11:15 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 47 seconds
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TWiP 122: If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will
Published: Dec. 6, 2016, 9:23 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 121: A parasite without borders
Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 120: When they die they calcify
Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 2:56 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 119: A kinder and gentler case
Published: Oct. 25, 2016, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 118: Crispr capers with Toxoplasma
Published: Oct. 6, 2016, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 117: Parasitic puzzles
Published: Sept. 26, 2016, 8:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 116: One drug to rule them all
Published: Sept. 11, 2016, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 35 seconds
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TWiP 115: The Cuscuta Factor
Published: Aug. 27, 2016, 2:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 114: Plant potions perturb Plasmodium
Published: Aug. 12, 2016, 9:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 113: Flying pigs
Published: July 23, 2016, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 112: A NOD to a tricky helminth
Published: June 25, 2016, 7:26 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 111: Bug bites
Published: June 3, 2016, 4:08 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 110: Malaria at the Bronx Zoo
Published: May 21, 2016, 9:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 109: Blame it on Mother
Published: May 13, 2016, 12:40 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP 108: B1 cells and Leishmania, insider traitors
Published: April 23, 2016, 1:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP 107: Parasites leave a bad taste in my gut
Published: April 11, 2016, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 11 seconds
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TWiP 106: Trematode stormtroopers in snail wars
Published: March 26, 2016, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 33 seconds
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TWiP 105: Survival of the fattest
Published: March 12, 2016, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 23 seconds
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TWiP 104: La maladie du sommeil
Published: Feb. 27, 2016, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 103: Scroll down, please
Published: Feb. 13, 2016, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP 102: Nursing eosinophils
Published: Feb. 6, 2016, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 53 seconds
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TWiP 101: Is it round or is it flat?
Published: Jan. 23, 2016, 1:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 29 seconds
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TWiP 100: Driving past a milestone
Published: Jan. 9, 2016, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 99: You get your polar bear from your nana
Published: Dec. 5, 2015, 7:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile
Published: Oct. 31, 2015, 2:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 9 seconds
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TWiP 97: The seven year itch
Published: Oct. 17, 2015, 3:38 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia
Published: Oct. 3, 2015, 12:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 95: Arsenic and Leishmania
Published: Sept. 19, 2015, 1:44 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit
Published: Sept. 5, 2015, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 93: A fishy tale unfolds
Published: Aug. 8, 2015, 1:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 23 seconds
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TWiP 92: Kleptohaemodeipnonism
Published: July 4, 2015, 12:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 23 seconds
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TWiP 91: Born to deform
Published: June 20, 2015, 12:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 23 seconds
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TWiP 90: A carbuncle is a large furuncle
Published: May 30, 2015, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 27 seconds
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TWiP 89: Day TWiPers
Published: May 16, 2015, 3:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP 88: French foreign lesion
Published: May 2, 2015, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 87: Stumped by pinworm
Published: April 21, 2015, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 41 seconds
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TWiP 86: Worms Loa the immune response to mycobacteria
Published: March 29, 2015, 1:18 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 85: Channeling tryps
Published: March 14, 2015, 2:17 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 84: Bigfoot
Published: Feb. 28, 2015, 3:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 9 seconds
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TWiP 83: Hidden costs of infection
Published: Feb. 23, 2015, 12:59 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 59 seconds
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TWiP 82: A NOD to helminths
Published: Feb. 7, 2015, 5:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 29 seconds
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TWiP 81: Living in a wormy world
Published: Jan. 24, 2015, 6:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 80: Daniel in the parasites' den
Published: Jan. 8, 2015, 2:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 7 seconds
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TWiP 79: Across the river and into the trees
Published: Nov. 22, 2014, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 78: Eau de rodent
Published: Oct. 29, 2014, 12:23 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 77: Mixed messages
Published: Sept. 19, 2014, 2:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out
Published: Sept. 2, 2014, 8:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 9 seconds
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TWiP 75: Parasite wonders with Bobbi Pritt
Published: July 21, 2014, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question?
Published: July 4, 2014, 1:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 47 seconds
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TWiP 73: I'm nibbling my way back to you
Published: June 13, 2014, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 72: Wormholes
Published: May 24, 2014, 1:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP 71: Happy trails to you
Published: May 10, 2014, 3:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 70: Invasion of the swamp eels
Published: April 12, 2014, 8:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 35 seconds
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TWiP 69: Malaria rising
Published: March 29, 2014, 12:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 68: Sex and the single trypanosome
Published: March 8, 2014, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 33 seconds
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TWiP 67: They find each other delightful
Published: Feb. 22, 2014, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP 66: A nitrile warhead for Chagas disease
Published: Feb. 8, 2014, 6:53 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 55 seconds
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TWiP 65: The real world wide web
Published: Jan. 13, 2014, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 59 seconds
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TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria
Published: Dec. 19, 2013, 9:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes
Published: Nov. 12, 2013, 1:27 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 62: More bats out of hell
Published: Nov. 1, 2013, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped
Published: Oct. 15, 2013, 2:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 33 seconds
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TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse
Published: Sept. 25, 2013, 8:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 59: Apicomplexity
Published: Sept. 9, 2013, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares
Published: Aug. 9, 2013, 2:28 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis
Published: July 20, 2013, 3:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP 56: Whirling disease
Published: July 3, 2013, 12:47 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 55: A ladybird's weapon
Published: June 15, 2013, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP 54: Unde venis?
Published: May 23, 2013, 4:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity
Published: April 20, 2013, 10:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 1 second
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TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm
Published: March 16, 2013, 7:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 57 seconds
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TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James
Published: March 2, 2013, 3:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut
Published: Feb. 16, 2013, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 5 seconds
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TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme
Published: Jan. 26, 2013, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 25 seconds
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TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device
Published: Dec. 18, 2012, 11:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 3 seconds
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TWiP 47: For whom the trich tolls
Published: Nov. 28, 2012, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 29 seconds
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TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger
Published: Oct. 17, 2012, 1:52 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP 45: Free range Toxoplasma with John Boothroyd
Published: Sept. 26, 2012, 12:34 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 47 seconds
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TWiP 44: Parasites provide a cricket subsidy for trout
Published: Sept. 7, 2012, 10:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 11 seconds
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TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts
Published: Aug. 23, 2012, 2:38 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking
Published: Aug. 10, 2012, 8:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 45 seconds
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TWiP 41: Flying and crawling beasts
Published: June 27, 2012, 1:43 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP 40: Doctor, there's a worm in my eye!
Published: May 17, 2012, 12:58 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 33 seconds
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TWiP 39: I encyst, said the amoeba
Published: April 26, 2012, 6:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 15 seconds
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TWiP 38: How to Trichomonas
Published: April 3, 2012, 1:53 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 41 seconds
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TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis
Published: Feb. 19, 2012, 8:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 17 seconds
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TWiP 36: Trichuris and microbes plan a hatch
Published: Feb. 1, 2012, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 9 seconds
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TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock
Published: Jan. 13, 2012, 2:36 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP #34 - Up against the Wolbachia
Published: Dec. 13, 2011, 6:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 51 seconds
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TWiP #33 - Hide and seek
Published: Nov. 24, 2011, 4:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 41 seconds
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TWiP #32: Evasive trypanosomes and schistosomes
Published: Nov. 8, 2011, 9:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 46 seconds
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TWiP #31 - A malaria vaccine
Published: Oct. 21, 2011, 1:17 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 47 seconds
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TWiP #30 - Global infectious disease control with Charles Knirsch
Published: Sept. 15, 2011, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 10 seconds
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TWiP #29 - Neglected tropical diseases with Peter Hotez
Published: Aug. 23, 2011, 8:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 52 seconds
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TWiP #28 - Medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz
Published: July 26, 2011, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP #27 - Trematodes
Published: June 22, 2011, 9:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP #26 - The schistosomes
Published: May 27, 2011, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 48 seconds
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TWiP #25 - Wuchereria bancrofti
Published: April 28, 2011, 1:48 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 38 seconds
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TWiP #24 - Onchocerca volvulus, a vector-borne, filarial nematode
Published: March 31, 2011, 5:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP #23 - Strongyloides sterocoralis, a most unusual parasite
Published: March 3, 2011, 9:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 42 seconds
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TWiP #21 - The giant intestinal worm, Ascaris lumbricoides
Published: Jan. 20, 2011, 3:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 20 seconds
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TWiP #20 - The whipworm Trichuris trichiura
Published: Dec. 17, 2010, 2:50 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 58 seconds
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TWiP #19 - Enterobius vermicularis, the pinworm
Published: Nov. 20, 2010, 6:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 37 seconds
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TWiP #18 - Cryptosporidium
Published: Oct. 27, 2010, 11:37 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 18 seconds
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TWiP #17 - Entamoeba histolytica
Published: Oct. 6, 2010, 5:51 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 21 seconds
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TWiP #16: Giardia
Published: Sept. 24, 2010, 2:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 46 seconds
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TWiP #15: Tryp the light fantastic
Published: Sept. 9, 2010, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 45 seconds
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TWiP #14 - Leishmania
Published: Aug. 12, 2010, 2:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 43 seconds
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TWiP #13 - Toxoplasmosis
Published: July 15, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 31 seconds
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TWiP #12 - Toxoplasma gondii
Published: June 18, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 39 seconds
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TWiP #11 - One times three million
Published: June 2, 2010, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 13 seconds
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TWiP #10 - Plasmodium life cycle
Published: May 20, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 59 seconds
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TWiP #9 - Mala aria
Published: May 6, 2010, 2:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 16 seconds
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TWiP #8 - Frog legs and parasite tales
Published: April 22, 2010, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 15 seconds
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TWiP #7 - Tapeworms are fantastic!
Published: April 9, 2010, 2:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 49 seconds
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TWiP #6 - Tapeworms, the long and short of it
Published: March 25, 2010, 4:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 8 seconds
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TWiP #5 - The nurse cell
Published: March 4, 2010, 3:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 24 seconds
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TWiP #4 - Trichinella life cycle
Published: Jan. 30, 2010, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 19 seconds
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TWiP #3 - Trichinella spiralis
Published: Dec. 27, 2009, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 58 seconds
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TWiP #2 - General parasitism
Published: Dec. 1, 2009, 1:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 10 seconds
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TWiP #1 - Introduction to parasitism
Published: Nov. 13, 2009, noonDuration: 57 minutes 15 seconds
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