This Week in Parasitism #3: Trichinella spiralis

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

On episode 2 of the podcast "This Week in Parasitism", Vincent and Dick distinguish among intracellular and extracellular parasites, then discuss the history and general characteristics of Trichinella spiralis.

Links for this episode:

• The History of Trichinella at Trichinella.org
• Parasite genome databases at the European Bioinformatics Institute
• List of parasite genome projects

Download TWiP #3 (46 MB .mp3, 63 minutes)

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