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Show Notes
The TWiPtoids solve the case of the Man from India with a Neck Lump, and explore the role of a transmissible dysbiotic skin microbiome in inflammation during cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin
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Links for this episode:- Transmissible dysbiotic skin microbiome in cutaneous leishmaniasis (Cell Host Microbe)
- Letters read on TWiP 137
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Case Study for TWiP 137Little town in DR, fall of 2016, have already mentioned this patient; little boy 2-3 years old, not behaving well, warned if doesn't behave, los gusanos will eat you! Mother asks Daniel to help son: lately is more irritable, troublesome, not well behaved; notices things in his hair. Has small poppy seed sized things on side of hair shafts. She picks them off in fingers and smashes them. What are they, what do I do? Simple dwelling, dirt floor, walls and tin roof, animals everywhere. No money for medicines, what can she do?
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Music by Ronald Jenkees