TWiP 59: Apicomplexity
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello\xa0and\xa0Dickson Despommier
\nVincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite\xa0P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.
\nLinks for this episode:\n- \n
- Cyclosporiasis\xa0outbreak\xa0in US (CDC) \n
- Extraordinary history\xa0of REV (PLoS Biology) \n
- Avian malaria\xa0(Ann NY Acad Sci) \n
- P. lophurae\xa0(J Parasitol) \n
- TWiP infects TWiV\xa0(TWiV 248) \n
- Intravenous\xa0malaria vaccine\xa0(Science) \n
- Unconventional\xa0malaria vaccine (Science) \n
- Image of apicomplexan structure:\xa0Wikipedia \n
- Letters read on TWiP 59 \n
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