All Episodes

TWiP 282: Does he live in New York?

TWiP 281: Ants under the influence

TWiP 280: The wriggling diagnosis

TWiP 279: Tolling for hookworms

TWiP 278: Trichinella from eating bear eyeballs

TWiP 277: Rif-ing on river blindness

TWiP 276: Travel history is the key

TWiP 275: Novel malaria vector control

TWiP 274: Four tablets for bloating

TWiP 273: Intestinal parasites in dogs

TWiP 272: Don't look and you won't find

TWiP 271: The silent lesion

TWiP 270: They bake my noodle

TWiP 269: Peripatetic Martin Grobusch

TWiP 268: A loyal parasite

TWiP 267: It dropped from her scalp

TWiP 266: Wraps and ivermectin for malaria

TWiP 265: Things that jump are cleaner than things that squat

TWiP 264: Toxoplasma changes your brain

TWiP 263: Tick-tock

TWiP 262: Do schistosomes affect behavior?

TWiP 261: A case for Dr. Hickam

TWiP 260: Daily rhythms

TWiP 259: Know your knowlesi

TWiP 258: The deeper, the rounder

TWiP 257: Malaya and Malaysia

TWiP 256: Amazing antimalarial drug resistance

TWiP 255: Katayama fever

TWiP 254: Our hero Dickson

TWiP 253: Sub-Saharan somnolence

TWiP 252: For malaria vaccine, mosquito is the needle

TWiP 251: Case of the facial ulcer

TWiP 250: Gut bacteria help Trichinella suppress colitis

TWiP 249: A virus and a parasite

TWiP 248: Toxoplasma reduces Alzheimer's disease

TWiP 247: Manhattan mystery malady

TWiP 246: Everything spiral: a worm in a hurry

TWiP 245: Flying purple people eater with Ben LaBrot

TWiP 244: Engineering Toxoplasma

TWiP 243: Don't blame it on Mexico

TWiP 242: Worms impair COVID vaccines

TWiP 241: There once was a patient from China

TWiP 240: A daily history of malaria with Sean Murphy

TWiP 239: Cryptosporidiosis from NYC tap water in an AIDS patient

TWiP 238: Eliminating sleeping sickness

TWiP 237: Pass the venison, deer with Marilyn Fabbri

TWiP 236: Prime-and-trap vaccine for malaria

TWiP 235: The case of the regurgitated wriggler

TWiP 234: Hookworms and a leech - parasites suck!

TWiP 233: Cryptosporidium not cryptocurrency

TWiP 232: Lives of Wolbachia

TWiP 231: Scotch in drink and tape

TWiP 230: Healing cutaneous leishmaniasis with Maria Adelaida Gomez

TWiP 229: The very hungry flatworm

TWiP 228: Parasitic fountain of youth

TWiP 227: Alpha-gal syndrome

TWiP 226: Successful systems attract parasites

TWiP 225: Wandering worm with Lee Gottesdiener

TWiP 224: Neglected tropical diseases roadmap with Chuck Knirsch

TWiP 223: Voluminous diarrhea

TWiP 222: Balamuthia in the brain with Natasha Spottiswoode

TWiP 221: Delusional parasitosis

TWiP 220: Denies any bug bites

TWIP 219: Sick as a dog

TWiP 218: Malaria parasite evades mosquito

TWiP 217: ChatGPT solves the case

TWiP 216: A challenging case

TWiP 215: A mobile piece of spaghetti

TWiP 214: Tropical medicine excursions with Kay Schaefer

TWiP 213: One deadly snail with Jessie Stone, MD

TWiP 212: The Man from Mali with Shauna Gunaratne

TWiP 211: Monoclonal against malaria in Mali

TWiP 210: Is there a doctor on board? with Aisha Khatib

TWiP 209: A worm in paradise

TWiP 208: A red herring

TWiP 207: Accidental host with Claire Panosian, MD

TWiP 206: Bacteria protect mosquitoes from parasites

TWiP 205: Two for the price of one

TWiP 204: Near a fast-flowing river

TWiP 203: True, true, and unrelated

TWiP 202: 80 microns and ovoid

TWiP 201: Tiny and hairy

TWiP 200: Parasites without borders

TWiP 199: Chagas kisses Cruzi and Brucei bites

TWiP 198: Cyclospora in the dining room with the salad bar

TWiP 197: An adventurous eater

TWiP 196: Naked eye entomologist

TWiP 195: Shocking diseases in attractive NY accents

TWiP 194: Eye had a corneal scraping

TWiP 193: A serpiginous trail

TWiP 192: Towel off vigorously

TWiP 191: Dickson's ocular anomaly

TWiP 190: But Doc, what could it be?

TWiP 189: Toe jammin'

TWiP 188: Terrible tropisms

TWiP 187: Granny's granuloma

TWiP 186: Not rationing rationality

TWiP 185: Latrinalia

TWiP 184: The hunter gets captured by the game

TWiP 183: When they dry they die

TWiP 182: Super spreaders of science

TWiP 181: Daniel's drive-through

TWiP 180: A spleen palaver

TWiP 179: Verminous visitors

TWiP 178: The shadowlands of medicine

TWiP 177: A scabrous education

TWiP 176: Blood schmear

TWiP 175: None alone pathognomonic

TWiP 174: Fat cat

TWiP 173: Rose colored spots

TWiP 172: A painless lesion

TWiP 171: Better than a sharp stick in the eye

TWiP 170: A worm's eye view

TWiP 169: What goes on in the snail

TWiP 168: Kleptoparasitism and the stercoraceous souvenir

TWiP 167: The constipated mathematician

TWiP 166: From remote locations

TWiP 165: The sound of crackles

TWiP 164: Surf n' perf

TWiP 163: Trout and parasites

TWiP 162: That swollen parcel of dropsies

TWiP 161: All I need is a bit of skin

TWiP 160: Toddy tappers

TWiP 159: Loa and Loa but not gone

TWiP 158: Ant-appetising slime balls

TWiP 157: What a long, strange TWiP it's been

TWiP 156: The parasitic devil is in the details

TWiP 155: Miss Dickson

TWiP 154: A louse-y episode

TWiP 153: Ars longa, vita brevis

TWiP 152: A range of rads

TWiP 151: Indiscriminate bulk feeders

TWiP 150: Fast food

TWiP 149: Stranger in a strange land

TWiP 148: Weep and sweep

TWiP 147: The savvy physician tests the tissue

TWiP 146: Thus misspake Despommier

TWiP 145: Is it excreted or secreted?

TWiP 144: A blood-free snip

TWiP 143: There's a lot of worms out there

TWiP 142: Just a virus, go home

TWiP 141: Paratransgenesis

TWiP 140: Blasting Blastocystis

TWiP 139: Eggsactly, ova and ova

TWiP 138: Telmophages and the skin parasite landscape

TWiP 137: An aberrant encounter

TWiP 136: Daniel throws a softball

TWiP 135: Embryonated eggs of wisdom

TWiP 134: Does toxoplasma make you sexy?

TWiP 133: Tape test

TWiP 132: Salted crab som tum

TWiP 131: Entomophagy

TWiP 130: Paige Turner

TWiP 129: Human kindness, river blindness

TWiP 128: It's over 9000!

TWiP 127: Kava not Cava

TWiP 126: A virus walks into a parasite

TWiP 125: Third time's a charm

TWiP 124: RPAing with the tryps

TWiP 123: What we know is confusing

TWiP 122: If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will

TWiP 121: A parasite without borders

TWiP 120: When they die they calcify

TWiP 119: A kinder and gentler case

TWiP 118: Crispr capers with Toxoplasma

TWiP 117: Parasitic puzzles

TWiP 116: One drug to rule them all

TWiP 115: The Cuscuta Factor

TWiP 114: Plant potions perturb Plasmodium

TWiP 113: Flying pigs

TWiP 112: A NOD to a tricky helminth

TWiP 111: Bug bites

TWiP 110: Malaria at the Bronx Zoo

TWiP 109: Blame it on Mother

TWiP 108: B1 cells and Leishmania, insider traitors

TWiP 107: Parasites leave a bad taste in my gut

TWiP 106: Trematode stormtroopers in snail wars

TWiP 105: Survival of the fattest

TWiP 104: La maladie du sommeil

TWiP 103: Scroll down, please

TWiP 102: Nursing eosinophils

TWiP 101: Is it round or is it flat?

TWiP 100: Driving past a milestone

TWiP 99: You get your polar bear from your nana

TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile

TWiP 97: The seven year itch

TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia

TWiP 95: Arsenic and Leishmania

TWiP 94: Loa hanging fruit

TWiP 93: A fishy tale unfolds

TWiP 92: Kleptohaemodeipnonism

TWiP 91: Born to deform

TWiP 90: A carbuncle is a large furuncle

TWiP 89: Day TWiPers

TWiP 88: French foreign lesion

TWiP 87: Stumped by pinworm

TWiP 86: Worms Loa the immune response to mycobacteria

TWiP 85: Channeling tryps

TWiP 84: Bigfoot

TWiP 83: Hidden costs of infection

TWiP 82: A NOD to helminths

TWiP 81: Living in a wormy world

TWiP 80: Daniel in the parasites' den

TWiP 79: Across the river and into the trees

TWiP 78: Eau de rodent

TWiP 77: Mixed messages

TWiP 76: Herpesvirus worms its way out

TWiP 75: Parasite wonders with Bobbi Pritt

TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question?

TWiP 73: I'm nibbling my way back to you

TWiP 72: Wormholes

TWiP 71: Happy trails to you

TWiP 70: Invasion of the swamp eels

TWiP 69: Malaria rising

TWiP 68: Sex and the single trypanosome

TWiP 67: They find each other delightful

TWiP 66: A nitrile warhead for Chagas disease

TWiP 65: The real world wide web

TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria

TWiP 63: Plasmodium of the apes

TWiP 62: More bats out of hell

TWiP 61: Some creep crept into the crypt and crapped

TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse

TWiP 59: Apicomplexity

TWiP 58: People, parasites, and plowshares

TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis

TWiP 56: Whirling disease

TWiP 55: A ladybird's weapon

TWiP 54: Unde venis?

TWiP 53: Anti-saliva immunity

TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm

TWiP 51: Modifying mosquitoes with Anthony A. James

TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut

TWiP 49: Making sense of toxo and heme

TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device

TWiP 47: For whom the trich tolls

TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger

TWiP 45: Free range Toxoplasma with John Boothroyd

TWiP 44: Parasites provide a cricket subsidy for trout

TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts

TWiP 42: The tick keeps on ticking

TWiP 41: Flying and crawling beasts

TWiP 40: Doctor, there's a worm in my eye!

TWiP 39: I encyst, said the amoeba

TWiP 38: How to Trichomonas

TWiP 37: Dracunculiasis

TWiP 36: Trichuris and microbes plan a hatch

TWiP 35: Malaria control with David Fidock

TWiP #34 - Up against the Wolbachia

TWiP #33 - Hide and seek

TWiP #32: Evasive trypanosomes and schistosomes

TWiP #31 - A malaria vaccine

TWiP #30 - Global infectious disease control with Charles Knirsch

TWiP #29 - Neglected tropical diseases with Peter Hotez

TWiP #28 - Medical entomology with Robert W. Gwadz

TWiP #27 - Trematodes

TWiP #26 - The schistosomes

TWiP #25 - Wuchereria bancrofti

TWiP #24 - Onchocerca volvulus, a vector-borne, filarial nematode

TWiP #23 - Strongyloides sterocoralis, a most unusual parasite

TWiP 22 - Hookworm

TWiP #21 - The giant intestinal worm, Ascaris lumbricoides

TWiP #20 - The whipworm Trichuris trichiura

TWiP #19 - Enterobius vermicularis, the pinworm

TWiP #18 - Cryptosporidium

TWiP #17 - Entamoeba histolytica

TWiP #16: Giardia

TWiP #15: Tryp the light fantastic

TWiP #14 - Leishmania

TWiP #13 - Toxoplasmosis

TWiP #12 - Toxoplasma gondii

TWiP #11 - One times three million

TWiP #10 - Plasmodium life cycle

TWiP #9 - Mala aria

TWiP #8 - Frog legs and parasite tales

TWiP #7 - Tapeworms are fantastic!

TWiP #6 - Tapeworms, the long and short of it

TWiP #5 - The nurse cell

TWiP #4 - Trichinella life cycle

TWiP #3 - Trichinella spiralis

TWiP #2 - General parasitism

TWiP #1 - Introduction to parasitism