This Week in Parasitism

TWiP 3: Trichinella spiralis

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Created on Sunday, 27 December 2009 22:50

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Vincent and Dick distinguish among intracellular and extracellular parasites, then discuss the history and general characteristics of Trichinella spiralis.

Host links: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Links for this episode:

• The History of Trichinella at Trichinella.org
• Parasite genome databases at the European Bioinformatics Institute
• List of parasite genome projects

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TWiP #3 (46 MB .mp3, 63 minutes)