TWiP 171: Better than a sharp stick in the eye
Episode description
The Leishmaniacs solve the case of the Child With Band Keratopathy, and reveal a eukaryotic parasite with functional mitochondria but without mitochondrial genomes.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin
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Links for this episode:- Elmer Pfefferkorn, 87
- Eukaryotic parasite without mitochondrial genomes (Sci Adv)
- Hero: Charles Wardell Stiles
- Letters read on TWiP 171
By boat to remote village, young boy (<10) brought in by Mother, concerned about painless ulcer on leg. Hard nodular border, 2-3 cm. Originally seen by floating doctors a few months before, now back as ulcer is not healing. Non-tender, there is an area of hard, different color skin that surrounds lesion. Some nodularity, clean lesion, no undermining.
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Music by Ronald Jenkees