Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes mice to lose their aversion to cat urine, even after the parasites have been cleared.

Links for this episode:

• T. gondii in mice causes loss of aversion to cat urine (PLoS One)
• Cyclosporiasis update (CDC)
• Letters read on TWiP 60

Listener Pick

Blaine - The Worm Within

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson update the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, discuss the avian malaria parasite P. lophurae, and review protection against malaria by intravenous immunization with a nonreplicating sporozoite vaccine.

Links for this episode:

• Cyclosporiasis outbreak in US (CDC)
• Extraordinary history of REV (PLoS Biology)
• Avian malaria (Ann NY Acad Sci)
• P. lophurae (J Parasitol)
• TWiP infects TWiV (TWiV 248)
• Intravenous malaria vaccine (Science)
• Unconventional malaria vaccine (Science)
• Image of apicomplexan structure: Wikipedia
• Letters read on TWiP 59

Contact

Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv

Subscribe (free)

Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email