TWiP 142: Just a virus, go home
b'
The TWiPsids solve the case of the Guatemalan Positive for Rhinovirus, and reveal how to kill all African trypanosomes with a primate apolipoprotein.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and\\xa0Daniel Griffin
Become a\\xa0patron\\xa0of TWiP.
Links for this episode:
- APOLs kill all African trypanosomes (Nat Micro)
- Trypanocidal properties of APOL1 on TWiP 85: Channeling tryps
- Letters read\\xa0on TWiP 142
Case Study for TWiP 142
Woman in 50s, immigrant from rural area with limited resources. Admitted to hospital with iron deficient anemia and eosinophilia. In US. Sent for colonoscopy. Note long slender serpiginous motile object, recovered, 4.5 cm long, one end slender, other large and curled but not blunt. Send worm to parasitology lab for identification. What might fit description? Is this usually associated with eosinophilia? What about anemia, is severe or mild? Would this person have come from outside the US to acquire this, or could they have acquired the infection in the US.
Send your case diagnosis, questions and comments to\\xa0twip@microbe.tv
Music by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees
'