This Week in Parasitism #15: Tryp the light fantastic

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

On episode 15 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss the life cycle and pathogenesis of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma.

Download TWiP #15 (63 MB .mp3, 87 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Metacyclic trypanomastigote (jpg)


• Tsetse fly (jpg)


• T. brucei life cycle (jpg)


• T. brucei parasitemia (jpg)


• Kissing bug nymph (jpg)


• T. cruzi life cycle (jpg)


• Letters read on TWiP 15

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