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Oct 29, 2014 1 hr 11 min

TWiP 78: Eau de rodent

from This Week in Parasitism

Vincent and Dickson discuss how malaria parasites induce odors in their rodent hosts that attract mosquitoes. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Links for this episode: Visceral Leishmaniasis, South Sudan (ProMedMail) Malaria-induced changes in host odors (PNAS) Image credit Letters read on TWiP 77 Contact Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected] Subscribe Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email

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