This Week in Parasitism #8: Frog legs and parasite tales

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

On episode 8 of the podcast "This Week in Parasitism", Dickson reads his story about sparganosis caused by the diphyllobothroid tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides.

Download TWiP #8 (60 MB .mp3, 83 minutes)

TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org.

Links for this episode:

• Spirometra life cycle (jpg)


• Dickson on vertical farming (CNN episode on YouTube, thanks Jesse!)


• Laboratory identification of parasites (CDC, thanks Michael!)


• Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite (Cosmos Magazine, thanks Gary!)


• Letters read on TWiP 8

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