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This Week in Parasitism

TWiP 57: An outbreak of cyclosporiasis

77 min • 20 juli 2013

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis caused by the single-celled coccidian parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis.

The day after recording this episode, ProMedMail reported that the outbreak of cyclosporiasis had spread to Texas.

Links for this episode:

Cyclosporiasis (CDC)
Cyclospora life cycle (CDC)
Cyclosporiasis (Wikipedia)
Cyclosporiasis outbreak, US (one, two, three) (ProMedMail)
Cyclosporiasis outbreak moves to Texas (ProMedMail)
Notifiable diseases, US, 2011 (CDC)
Federal funding for science research (virology blog)
Oculus of Singapore (YouTube)
Dickson recording TWiP 57 (jpg)
Dickson's stuff (jpg)
People, Parasites, and Plowshares by Dickson Despommier
Letters read on TWiP 57

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