TWiP #8 - Frog legs and parasite tales
This Week in Parasitism · Vincent Racaniello
April 22, 20101h 23m
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Show Notes
Dickson reads his story about sparganosis caused by the diphyllobothroid tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides.
Host links: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Links for this episode:- Spirometra life cycle (jpg)
- Dickson on vertical farming (CNN episode on YouTube, thanks Jesse!)
- Laboratory identification of parasites (CDC, thanks Michael!)
- Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite (Cosmos Magazine, thanks Gary!)
- Letters read on TWiP 8