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Feb092011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10:12AM This Week in Parasitism (TWiP) #22: Hookworm
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
On episode 22 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson discuss possibly the most socially and politically important nematode of humans, the hookworm Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.
TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org.
Links for this episode:
- Diagrams of adult hookworm (jpg)
- Ancylostoma duodenale adults (jpg)
- Hookworm mouth (jpg)
- Hookworm eggs (jpg)
- Hookworm life cycle (jpg)
- Letters read on TWiP 22
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