TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello\xa0and\xa0Dickson Despommier
\nVincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the giant kidney worm,\xa0Dioctophyme renale.
\nLinks for this episode:\n- \n
- Dioctophymiasis\xa0(CDC) \n
- Dioctophyme renale\xa0(Wikipedia) \n
- Fatal bilateral\xa0dioctophymiasis\xa0(J Parasitol) \n
- Clinical Parasitology\xa0by Paul C. Beaver \n
- D. renale\xa0in a dog\xa0(Vet. Parasitol.) \n
- Surgical removal\xa0of\xa0D. renale\xa0(YouTube) \n
- Letters read on TWiP 52 \n
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