TWiP 52: Not your ordinary unsegmented roundworm - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review the life cycle and pathogenesis of the giant kidney worm, Dioctophyme renale.

Links for this episode:

• Dioctophymiasis (CDC)


• Dioctophyme renale (Wikipedia)


• Fatal bilateral dioctophymiasis (J Parasitol)


• Clinical Parasitology by Paul C. Beaver


• D. renale in a dog (Vet. Parasitol.)


• Surgical removal of D. renale (YouTube)


• Letters read on TWiP 52

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